Two hundred years ago, half of the world went dark. The Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia blew its top in April 1815, killing more than 60,000 people and turning the summer into winter across ...

Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living on Tambora took no chances when history's deadliest mountain rumbled ominously this month.

The largest volcanic blast in recorded history erupted in 1815 on an Indonesian island, burying the tiny kingdom of Tambora. --117,000 people were killed in all, including the 10,000 people of Tambora ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so large it spewed 24 cubic miles of ash, rock, and gases into the air, produced smoke that could be seen from 300 miles away, and completely altered the planet's climate ...

Mount Tambora in Indonesia has been stirring lately, but don't expect another massive eruption from the so-called "world's deadliest volcano," one scientist said. Tambora is famous for its 1815 ...

The volcanologist Stephen Self, an expert on super-eruptions, was the first modern-day scientist to visit Tambora in Indonesia, the site of the largest volcanic eruption in 1,000 years. On the 200th ...

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. Indonesia ...

Magma isn’t the only thing that came out Tambora during the 1815 eruption. When magma rises it releases gases that are dissolved in it. In a cataclysmic eruption like Tambora, that volcanic aerosols ...

Learn more about the area around Mount Tambora and how, even though it was once the site of the largest eruption on record, the next massive eruption probably won't come from there. Monica Cull is a ...