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1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere .
Although the Mount Tambora eruption reached a violent climax on 10 April 1815, [5] increased steaming and small phreatic eruptions occurred during the next six months to three years. The ash from the eruption column dispersed around the world and lowered global temperatures in an event sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer in 1816. [6]
This eruption created the Doro Api Toi parasitic cone inside the caldera. [26] Mount Tambora is still active and minor lava domes and flows were extruded on the caldera floor during the 19th and 20th centuries. [1] The last eruption was recorded in 1967. It was a gentle eruption with a VEI of 0, which means it was non-explosive.
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 ...
Pages in category "Films set in 1816" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Allonsanfàn; D.
Toba catastrophe theory, a controversial hypothesis that a volcanic winter produced by the eruption of a volcano in Toba, Indonesia, created a human population bottleneck approximately 80,000 years ago. Volcanic winter; Year Without a Summer, 1816, created by a volcanic eruption in Tambora.
Eruption is a heart-pounding volcano thriller set in Hawaii. Crichton spent more than 20 years researching volcanic eruptions and working on his book before he died of cancer on Nov. 4, 2008 at ...
Dante's Peak is a 1997 American disaster film directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Leslie Bohem, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, and Charles Hallahan.The film is set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak where the inhabitants fight to survive the eruption of a long dormant stratovolcano that has suddenly become active again.