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.

One of nature’s fury, volcanoes sometimes erupt without any ... In early April 1815, Mount Tambora, a long-dormant volcano on Indonesia’s Sumbawa Island, startled rumbling.

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into ...

The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora ... Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the ...

The eruption of Mount Tambora killed thousands, plunged much of the world into a frightful chill and offers lessons for today. Greg Harlin/Wood Ronsaville Harlin A year after the eruption ...

The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 stands as the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. Located on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia, Tambora's explosion was so immense that it ejected ...

The cataclysmic eruption of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara, lasted several months from April to July 1815. The death toll was up to 250,00 in Tambora vicinity and around the ...