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 ...
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 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 ...