[uglybiker]

GGG ping.

[Doomonyou]

The perp.

[FreePaul]

...largest volcanic eruption in human history...

There are other histories? If they are written in English I'd like to read some.

[mtbopfuyn]

Ah, so that's where I lost it, but some punk spray painted it red.

[llevrok]

Isn't that near the Isle of Lucy?

[FreedomFarmer]

It used to cost a dime to see the Queen of Tambora when I was a kid.

I always ran when the cage door sprang open.

[DilJective]

"the kingdom of Tambora has been lying undisturbed under volcanic debris and ash for centuries"

"All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815," Sigurdsson said.

So, I gather a century is less than 100 years? Or, I've been asleep for a long time and it's really 2016 AD now....

I hate to be critical, but when the authors are supposed to be smarty-pants I expect a little accuracy. It's an interesting story anyway. Thanks for posting it.

[Billthedrill]

I don't suppose there's any point in speculating that the natives were called "tamborines"?

Didn't think so.

[Nachoman]

Isn't this odd. I just got an e-mail from the Prince of Tambora, and he said he would transfer $20 million to me if I just give him my account number.

[SunkenCiv]

ah, here it is:

"Lost Kingdom" Discovered on Volcanic Island in Indonesia
National Geographic | February 27, 2006 | John Roach
Posted on 02/27/2006 9:48:58 PM EST by annie laurie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1586749/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[Smokin' Joe]

According to Steve Carey, professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography, the discovery is important because "it provides a unique opportunity to study the effects of this very large explosive eruption on the people who lived close to the volcano."

I suppose there is always some new study to be done, but if he dug up a copy of "The Volcanoes Deadly Work" he'd find at least a rudimentary explanation, that of the victims on Martinique of the St Pierre Eruption: they were flash cooked. (The only survivor was a fellow who was in prison, iirc, convicted of murder: he was pardoned (he alone had been spared by the hand of God).

[Mike Darancette]

Wiped out in 1815 by the largest volcanic eruption in human history

Maybe largest volcanic eruption in recorded human history. The eruption of Toba about 75,000 years ago wiped out all human beings on earth with the exception of 5,000 - 10,000 individuals. This blast was much larger than Tambora in 1815.