After the eruption, the global temperature dropped by up to 3°C, and a 'volcanic winter' was witnessed in many places.

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.

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 ...

But researchers who have studied the volcano encouraged me ... not to blame every misery of those years on the Tambora eruption, because by 1815 a cooling trend was already under way.

The summit caldera of Tambora, which is about 6 kilometers wide and 7 kilometers long and more than 1 kilometer deep, was created by the 1815 eruption. Gray eruptive products form the top of the ...

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 1815 Mount Tambora eruption in Indonesia, the Laki eruption on Iceland in 1783 ... In analysing these three events, Dr Oppenheimer hopes to uncover clues to the impact of future eruptions. Tokyo, ...

Tambora unleashed its fury ... The force of this eruption on the small, uninhabited island of Krakatau was so great that much of the volcano, and two-thirds of the island itself, collapsed into ...