The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate damage was devastating: Entire villages were gone, the landscapes of ...

So, the eruption of Tambora emitted, by mass, 178 times more per second than Niagara can handle. Is that all? Magma isn’t the only thing that came out Tambora during the 1815 eruption.

Cholera had always been endemic to Bengal, but the bizarre weather of 1816–17 triggered by Tambora’s eruption—first drought, then late, unseasonal flooding—altered the microbial ecology of ...

The eruption of Tambora in 1815 created a 6.5-km-wide and more than 1-km-deep caldera. Erupted products form the top of the caldera wall, as seen in the foreground, ...

Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Sumbawa island in Indonesia. The volcano resides along the Sunda Arc — a chain of volcanic islands. Though it has experienced several eruptions throughout ...

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.

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 ...

Wood also discussed how the Tambora eruption affected Church history. “Joseph Smith’s family was uprooted from their farm in Vermont, and moved to Palmyra, New York because of the poor weather ...

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia left a huge crater, along with a sometimes unexpected legacy. Jialiang Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. On April 10, 1815, the Tambora ...

The eruption of Tambora, on April 10, 1815, on the island of Sumbawa in what's now Indonesia, was 100 times more powerful than the 1980 Mount St. Helens blast, according to the U.S. Geological ...