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.

Indonesia is home to the world's largest-ever volcanic eruption — Mount Tambora in 1815, killing 100,000 people. But the disaster is little remembered, primarily because of lack of media.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Examples of volcanic eruptions that had an impact on climate include Mount Tambora in 1815, Krakatau in 1883, and Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines caused global ...