The Most Powerful Volcanic Eruptions Through History

Tambora’s roar was heard 2,000 kilometers away, a cry that shook the heavens. Its eruption unleashed 160 cubic kilometers of ash, dimming the global sun. The following year became known as “The Year Without a Summer,” when snow fell in June and crops rotted across Europe. Famine and despair followed, but in candlelit

rooms, imagination burned bright. Mary Shelley dreamt of Frankenstein as thunder rolled outside; Byron wrote of darkness eternal.