Tambora – biggest eruption recorded
An island in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago, year 1815. – one of the biggest volcanic eruption in human history. Volcano named Tambora erupted that day. Eruption was 10 times bigger than Krakatoa and more than hundred times bigger than Vesuvis.
“The eruption went up about 43 kilometers into the atmosphere. That is about 30 miles — much higher than any airplane fly[ing] today — and emitting a volume that is about 100 cubic kilometers of molten rock in the form of ash and pumice,” says volcanologist from University of Rhode Island. “That volume is by far the largest volume of any volcanic eruption in life on earth.”
Eruption left the enormous cloud of gas and then the gas reacted with water vapor in the atmosphere, it formed tiny little droplets of sulfuric acid that became suspended in the stratosphere.
Radiation was bouncing back into space because of that veil of gas and decreasing the amount of heat that reached the Earth’s surface, causing global cooling.
All the big volcanic eruptions have ended up cooling the Earth, causing temperatures to drop.
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