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The 1815 eruption at Tambora was the largest in recorded human history. So, what exactly does that mean?
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 ...
In 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 eruption of Tambora in 1815 created a 6.5-km-wide and more than 1-km-deep caldera.
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 ...
Tambora brought the world a taste of apocalypse 200 years ago. Today we have better tools to monitor volcanoes like it, but the next eruption of its size will still challenge civilization.
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.
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