News

The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate ...
Reader's Digest Canada on MSN13h
The Year Canada Didn’t Have a Summer
The year without a summer In the spring of 1815, things were looking up for Canada. Local Canadian militia, along with British forces and their Indigenous allies, had just thwarted an American ...
An eruption at Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano Tuesday evening into Wednesday has prompted evacuations and ...
I was sitting in my living room after supper on Friday, June 13, under a quilt and with the heat on. The forecast was ...
Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...
While they didn't know the chill's cause at the time, scientists and historians now know that the biggest volcanic eruption in human history, on the other side of the world — Mount Tambora in ...
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.
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 ...