The biggest volcanic eruption in recorded history was Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815, which caused a year without summer and killed 10,000 people. The largest eruption in human history was Mt. Toba, and the largest in Earth’s history was the Siberian Traps, which caused the largest mass extinction. The largest volcanic eruption in recorded […]
The Great Chilean Earthquake in 1960 was the largest earthquake ever recorded, measuring 9.5 on the Richter scale and causing an unknown number of deaths and up to $800 billion in damage. The Richter scale is exponential, with each integer value representing a shock with ten times the magnitude of the previous value. Other major […]
