I originally had this information in today's first post, but it likely deserves it's own post, so here it is. Why do I mention this? Well, with any news of increased seismicity and steam plumes at a ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - West Nusa Tenggara Rock Climbing Federation offers Tambora caldera adventure at the Tambora Menyapa Dunia (Tambora Greets the World) event. This is the second adventure offered ...

Two hundred years ago this week, an obscure volcano in Indonesia named Tambora rumbled to life after centuries of dormancy. On April 5, 1815, huge plumes of fire jetted from the mountain for three ...

The 2010 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull grounded thousands of air flights and spread ash over much of western Europe, yet it was puny compared to the eruption 200 years ago of ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - That day we departed from a hamlet located on 600-meter height above the sea level, named Pancasila, Tambora Vilage, Pekat Sub district, Dompu Regency, West Nusa Tenggara. We were ...

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. Gray eruptive products form the top of the ...

Indonesian researchers believe they have identified six new animal species in the newly declared Mount Tambora National Park on the island of Sumbawa. “We are sure these six candidates have not been ...

An expedition to the site of the largest volcanic eruption in modern times has uncovered a lost kingdom. More than 100,000 people died when Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in ...

The 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 the 200th ...