The Most Terrifying Volcanic Disaster in Human History
With an explosive force of approximately 800 million tons of TNT, the eruption of Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815, in Sumbawa, Indonesia, is the most significant explosion in human ...
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Inside the ghost town once devastated by a volcanic eruption that killed 20,000 people
More than three decades after the catastrophic volcanic disaster, the town of Armero (Colombia) remains an uninhabited site filled with ruins.The town of Armero (Colombia) is now an uninhabited site ...
The reason human brains turn to glass after a volcanic disaster
The volcanic eruption that wiped out the Roman town of Pompeii generated a hot gas flow with temperatures reaching 550 degrees Celsius, high enough to turn human brains into glass.According ...
