An eruption at Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano Tuesday evening into Wednesday has prompted evacuations and ...

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 Sumbawa ...

The caldera measures approximately 34 by 45 miles (55 by 72 kilometers) and formed through several enormous eruptions over the past 2.1 million years. Unlike conventional volcanoes with their ...

A picture released by the NASA Earth Observatory on July 22, 2009 shows a detailed photograph of the summit caldera of the Tambora volcano, on the island of Sumbawa. (AFP/NASA) ...

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 huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption. Today ...

The Earth’s belly holds a massive amount of material constantly in the churn. This is what results in volcanic eruptions. While volcanic eruptions can cause widespread loss of life and property in ...

This wasn’t a massive eruption like Tambora, but it still cooled the world by around 0.5 degrees Celsius for several years. For older volcanoes, however, “we have very poor data,” Stoffel said.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the world may be due another and it is not prepared ...

The world should learn from past disasters and prepare for the effects of future, inevitable volcanic catastrophes, a wide-reaching book teaches us.