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*.

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

I n 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth's climate for years and even led to the "year without summer" in 1816.

The summer of 1815 was marked by persistent red skies and cold days in Europe, North America and China. ... The decade of the 1810s, as a result, is the coldest on record. Volcanologists rank ...

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 ...

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.

image: The summit caldera of Tambora, which is about 6 kilometers wide and 7 kilometers long and more than 1 kilometer deep, was created by the 1815 eruption.

On this date in 201 years ago in 1815, the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted. This was the most powerful volcanic eruption of at least the past 1,000 years. Tens of thousands of people were ...