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 ...

Paul Hessels / Wikimedia Commons Before the eruption in 1815, Tambora was a volcano that might have been 4,300 meters (~14,100 feet) tall. That’s about the same size as Mt. Rainier*.

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 ...

No school textbook I’ve seen mentions that only two months before Napoleon’s final defeat in 1815, ... but the bizarre weather of 1816–17 triggered by Tambora’s eruption—first drought, ...

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, ...

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 ...

On April 5, 1815, in what was then called the Dutch East Indies and is now called Indonesia, the volcano Mount Tambora erupted. The eruption built up for several days until, on April 10, a massive ...

Mount Tambora's deep volcanic crater created by the April 1815 eruption is seen on June 3, 2009. IMAGO/piemags/Reuters Walkers make their way along the craters edge of Mount Tambora on July 19, 2006.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the world may be due another and it is not prepared ...