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This eruption was the largest in at least 1,300 years (after the hypothesized eruption causing the volcanic winter of 536); its effect on the climate may have been exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. The significant amount of volcanic ash and gases released into the atmosphere blocked sunlight, leading to global cooling.
A high volcanic cone with a single central vent formed before the 1815 eruption, which follows a stratovolcano shape. [18] The diameter at the base is 60 kilometres (37 mi). [8] The volcano frequently erupted lava, which descended over steep slopes. [18] Tambora has produced trachybasalt and trachyandesite rocks which are rich in potassium.
The eruption caused a volcanic winter. During the Northern Hemisphere summer of 1816, global temperatures cooled by 0.53 °C (0.95 °F). This cooling directly or indirectly caused 90,000 deaths. The eruption of Mount Tambora was the largest cause of this climate anomaly. [22]
A feature film is in the works for Michael Crichton and James Patterson's bestselling thriller, Eruption.The book was released last week, and is already No. 1 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple.
Scientists have solved the 200-year-old mystery of the location of a massive volcanic eruption that spewed such a large volume of gases that it blocked sunlight, making the sun appear blue. The ...
Films about volcanoes, ruptures in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allow hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
During the rainy summer of 1816, the "Year Without a Summer", the world was locked in a long, cold volcanic winter caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. [19] [20] Mary Shelley, aged 18, and her lover (and future husband), Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited Lord Byron at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, in Switzerland's Alps. The weather ...