The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia left a huge crater, along with a sometimes unexpected legacy. Jialiang Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On April 10, 1815, the Tambora ...

Painting of Chichester Canal, showing the vivid sunsets caused by the volcanic aerosols of Tambora. J.M.W. Turner / Public Domain All that ash The eruption had two main phases: an initial Plinian ...

Mount Tambora's 1815 eruption is the largest recorded. Two hundred years after the biggest volcanic blast in recorded history, scientists have ranked the countries most at risk of a deadly ...

The Tambora event was the largest volcanic eruption in the last millennium. On the U.S. Geological Survey’s Volcano Explosivity Index, Tambora scores a seven out of eight. That’s ten times ...

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the increased signs of potential activity at Tambora have started a deluge of appalling drivel across the internet. I mean, Tambora in 1815 is one of ...

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 ...

Gillen D'arcy Wood speaks to students at the Kennedy Center. Wood disccused Tambora's effects on art, literature, and society. (Maddi Driggs) Gillen D’arcy Wood, professor of English and ...

Two hundred years ago on April 10, the Indonesian volcano Tambora erupted, obliterating an entire tribe of people, cooling the Earth by several degrees, and causing famines and disease outbreaks ...