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.

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.

Small eruptions of the same volcano happened in 1880 and 1967, and seismic activity was detected in 2011, 2012 and 2013. This massive eruption, hundreds of miles west of Tambora, blew ash as far ...

In 1815, the Tambora volcano, which was 20 times the size of Mount Vesuvius, erupted in Indonesia. It is estimated that over 71,000 people died. It left a crater 3.7 miles wide and 3600 feet deep!

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 ...

On April 10, 1815, the Indonesian volcano of Mount Tambora exploded in the largest eruption in recorded history. On the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), a classification system akin to the scale ...

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 ...