In 1809, a massive volcanic eruption occurred, but its location remains unknown. Scientists found evidence of a hidden ...

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 ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia, killing an estimated 92,000 people. It was the biggest eruption in recorded history. And yet ...

Mount Tambora’s 1815 eruption triggered the “year without a summer,” causing global cooling, failed crops, famine, and cultural shifts, including Mary Shelley's inspiration for Frankenstein.

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 ...

Zavaritskii’s eruption is now recognised as one of the most powerful of the 19th century, alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815) and Cosegüina in Nicaragua (1835). These events marked the ...

The eruption was two orders of magnitude (100X) larger than another famous Indonesian volcanic eruption, Mount Tambora, which caused what is now referred to as "the year without a summer" in 1816.

The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 has been linked to climate change and social unrest. Such historical eruptions could serve as test cases for models used to assess future climate changes.