The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption. Today ...

Yet the eruption of Mount Toba released ... Sixty-eight years earlier, when Mount Tambora (also in Indonesia) had erupted in 1815, it injected so much dust into the stratosphere that the earth ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

By Julian James The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora is considered the most powerful in recorded history. It lowered global temperatures by approximately 1 degree Celsius, leading to crop failures ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed ...

Mount Tambora in the East Indies erupted on a massive scale in 1815, sending a huge ash cloud into the upper atmosphere. It was enough to disrupt weather patterns across the ...