UC Berkeley volcanologist Stephen Self, an expert on super-eruptions, was the first modern-day scientist to visit Tambora in Indonesia, the site of the largest volcanic eruption in 1,000 years. On ...

Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World, a 2014 book by Gillen D'Arcy Wood, is an excellent read. Volcanic Winter , my April 2009 post. Volcanic winter article from wikipedia.

Mount Tambora's 1815 eruption is the largest recorded. Two hundred years after the biggest volcanic blast in recorded history, scientists have ranked the countries most at risk of a deadly ...

Tambora, located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, was the largest and deadliest known eruption of the last 750 years; a possibly larger explosion occurred on the nearby island of Lombok in 1257.

The eruption of Tambora was ten times as explosive as that of Krakatoa. It produced enough debris to cover an area the size of Rhode Island in 183 feet of ash.

The Tambora eruption did produce a lasting effect on the world. So much dust and sulfur dioxide was injected into the atmosphere that the sun was dimmed. For the next three years, ...

FARGO — The great Tambora volcanic eruption happened in April 1815. This was the most powerful volcanic eruption of at least the past 1,000 years. As many as 100,000 people were killed in a ...

Now, Tambora is more than a lightweight infielder, but over its known eruptive history over the last 4,000 years, it has had one VEI 7 eruption — and a number of VEI 2 eruptions.Now, we might ...

Indonesia is home to the world's largest-ever volcanic eruption — Mount Tambora in 1815, killing 100,000 people. But the disaster is little remembered, primarily because of lack of media.

The Tambora eruption was one of the largest in recorded history. Scientists now estimate that the volcano belched out as much as 50 cubic kilometers of ash and gas, darkening the sky for days.