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Earth’s fiery fury
Volcanic eruptions are dramatic displays of the fiery power deep inside the earth.
They cause devastation through lava flows, toxic gas clouds, ash fall, pyroclastic
flows, mudflows, and tsunamis. These strong phenomena can even cause changes in
the weather and climate.
Mount Tambora, Indonesia, 1815 Mount Pelee,
the dormant
The largest volcanic eruption in volcano on
modern times occurred on the northern
April 10, 1815, in Mount tip of the
Tambora on Sumbawa Caribbean,
Island in Indonesia. The erupted
eruption expelled huge violently on
amount of magma in ash May 8, 1902.
clouds and pyroclastic Local people
flows. Layers of ash, more call it the ‘fire
than a centimetre thick, fell mountain’.
on a huge area of Indonesia
and the Java Sea. After the
eruption, Mount Tambora
lost about 1,400 metres
in height.
Impact Going out Did you know?
with a spark!
The explosive eruption A super volcanic eruption
and the tsunami that in Lake Toba in Indonesia
followed killed about
eleven thousand is thought to have wiped
people. The thick out ninety-nine per cent of
ash deposits ruined the global human population
agriculture, causing around 74,000 years ago.
famine and disease,
which claimed another
eighty-two thousand
lives. The combined
loss of life makes the
Tambora eruption
the deadliest ever.
TICKER Other planets in our solar system have erupting volcanoes as well.
Volcanic eruptions are dramatic displays of the fiery power deep inside the earth.
They cause devastation through lava flows, toxic gas clouds, ash fall, pyroclastic
flows, mudflows, and tsunamis. These strong phenomena can even cause changes in
the weather and climate.
Mount Tambora, Indonesia, 1815 Mount Pelee,
the dormant
The largest volcanic eruption in volcano on
modern times occurred on the northern
April 10, 1815, in Mount tip of the
Tambora on Sumbawa Caribbean,
Island in Indonesia. The erupted
eruption expelled huge violently on
amount of magma in ash May 8, 1902.
clouds and pyroclastic Local people
flows. Layers of ash, more call it the ‘fire
than a centimetre thick, fell mountain’.
on a huge area of Indonesia
and the Java Sea. After the
eruption, Mount Tambora
lost about 1,400 metres
in height.
Impact Going out Did you know?
with a spark!
The explosive eruption A super volcanic eruption
and the tsunami that in Lake Toba in Indonesia
followed killed about
eleven thousand is thought to have wiped
people. The thick out ninety-nine per cent of
ash deposits ruined the global human population
agriculture, causing around 74,000 years ago.
famine and disease,
which claimed another
eighty-two thousand
lives. The combined
loss of life makes the
Tambora eruption
the deadliest ever.
TICKER Other planets in our solar system have erupting volcanoes as well.
