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Mount Tambora's 1815 Eruption Altered the Planet - Could It Happen Again?
Significance of the 1815 Mount Tambora Eruption Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Sumbawa island in Indonesia. The ...
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The Year Without a Summer: The Eruption of Mt Tambora
While the eruption had caused immediate destruction and loss of life on the island of Sumbawa and its neighboring islands, ...
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Deadly Volcanoes
The blasts propelled rock and ash perhaps 25 miles into the sky above the island of Sumbawa. Volcanic gases ... The force of this eruption on the small, uninhabited island of Krakatau was so ...