Tambora, in 1815, resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people directly from the blast, and tens of millions due to ...

The impacts are usually relatively small and brief. Though rarer, the much larger eruptions of Krakatoa in 1883, Tambora in 1815, Huaynaputina in 1600, and Samalas in 1257 ejected huge volumes of ...

This eruption, like the famous Krakatoa eruption in 1883, was so powerful that it created a huge crater, or caldera, and sent ash and gases high into the atmosphere. It wasn’t just about the ...

This mysterious sudden movement of Earth's crust sent vibrations through the seafloor that were picked up by distant ...

Mount Merapi also erupted in 2010, killing 347 people and displacing 20,000 villagers. The monumental eruption of the ...