The eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, was the most powerful volcanic blast in history. The immediate damage was devastating: Entire villages were gone, the landscapes of ...

I n 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.

In 1815, the Tambora volcano, which was 20 times the size of Mount Vesuvius, erupted in Indonesia. It is estimated that over 71,000 people died. It left a crater 3.7 miles wide and 3600 feet deep!

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 ...

On this day in April 1815, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa just east of Java and Bali, the 14,000-foot-high Mount Tambora exploded and collapsed upon itself.

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.

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 ...

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.