Significance of the 1815 Mount Tambora Eruption Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Sumbawa island in Indonesia. The volcano resides along the Sunda Arc — a chain of volcanic islands. Though it ...

Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the scene of the ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a ...

While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s location was not ... four eruptions were previously identified: Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded in 1815, and Cosegüina ...

Tambora unleashed its fury over two weeks in ... uninhabited island of Krakatau was so great that much of the volcano, and two-thirds of the island itself, collapsed into the sea, triggering ...

The Ring of Fire is also where an estimated 75% of the planet’s volcanoes are located, such as Mount Tambora of Indonesia, which erupted in 1815 and became the largest volcanic eruption in ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

In April 1815, the eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia — one of the largest in recorded history — blasted ash and gases into the atmosphere purportedly causing widespread cooling and crop ...