Dennise Hernandez
Mount Tambora
Planet Earth has several types of volcanoes. Some are simply asleep, others are definitely extinct, and many volcanoes have some activity going on, waiting to go into eruption every so often. Among these volcanoes, one is known for its catastrophic damage that caused climate change.
Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, had been showing activity since 1812, when it began to rumble and generate a black cloud. In those times, unfortunately, the prediction of eruptions was not so advanced nor did they know how to do now in case of volcanic eruption. On April 5, 1815, there was a moderate eruption followed by thunderous sounds that could be heard more than 1,000 kilometers away. By April 10th, 1915, …show more content…
In the New England region, the heat began to rebound in July, encouraging farmers to plant again, only to be hit by a new low in the heat that reduced vegetables again until a truce on August 20. While in the northern hemisphere winter raged in the summer, in the tropical regions of New Spain, copious rains and storms gave no respite to farmers. In Taiwan it snowed and in China the frost ended many rice crops, mainly in the north. Throughout the world, the harvests that had been achieved were defended by the authorities to keep them away from the hungry people in rebellion while prices rose to the stratosphere. No one understood why all these calamities were happening.
Great sunspots could be seen that year with the naked eye, and they were blamed. No one imagined that the ashes expelled by the voice Tambora had come so far and were giving those amazing sunsets to heaven. Nobody, until William J. Humphreys, an American climatologist, in 1920. He established the relation between both phenomena and explained that the veil of dust that formed the suspended particles had reflected the light of the sun. In conclusion, Mount Tambora became one of the deadliest eruptions causing ten thousand people lost their lives directly, although deaths from hunder and disease raise the total to at least seventy thousand. The year without summer caused fall in temperature and the
Mount Tambora
Planet Earth has several types of volcanoes. Some are simply asleep, others are definitely extinct, and many volcanoes have some activity going on, waiting to go into eruption every so often. Among these volcanoes, one is known for its catastrophic damage that caused climate change.
Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia, had been showing activity since 1812, when it began to rumble and generate a black cloud. In those times, unfortunately, the prediction of eruptions was not so advanced nor did they know how to do now in case of volcanic eruption. On April 5, 1815, there was a moderate eruption followed by thunderous sounds that could be heard more than 1,000 kilometers away. By April 10th, 1915, …show more content…
In the New England region, the heat began to rebound in July, encouraging farmers to plant again, only to be hit by a new low in the heat that reduced vegetables again until a truce on August 20. While in the northern hemisphere winter raged in the summer, in the tropical regions of New Spain, copious rains and storms gave no respite to farmers. In Taiwan it snowed and in China the frost ended many rice crops, mainly in the north. Throughout the world, the harvests that had been achieved were defended by the authorities to keep them away from the hungry people in rebellion while prices rose to the stratosphere. No one understood why all these calamities were happening.
Great sunspots could be seen that year with the naked eye, and they were blamed. No one imagined that the ashes expelled by the voice Tambora had come so far and were giving those amazing sunsets to heaven. Nobody, until William J. Humphreys, an American climatologist, in 1920. He established the relation between both phenomena and explained that the veil of dust that formed the suspended particles had reflected the light of the sun. In conclusion, Mount Tambora became one of the deadliest eruptions causing ten thousand people lost their lives directly, although deaths from hunder and disease raise the total to at least seventy thousand. The year without summer caused fall in temperature and the