The eruption unleashed rivers of lava and devastating pyroclastic ... becoming a linguistic enigma. Mount Tambora remains active. Continuous monitoring of the volcano and the creation of disaster ...

The threat of a massive volcanic eruption capable of wiping out cities and causing global devastation is becoming increasingly urgent. Such rare events have the power to alter climates, disrupt food ...

The 1815 eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora killed an estimated 100,000 people in the direct impact, but led to millions of more deaths later. It released 24 cubic miles of gases, dust ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...