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1815: Mt Tambora explodes on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. one of the most powerful in recorded history and classified as a VEI-7 event. The eruption resulted in a brief period of significant climate conditions that consistently led to various cases of extreme weather. The eruption column lowered global temperatures, and some experts believe this led to global cooling and worldwide harvest failures, sometimes known as the Year Without a Summer. It is believed that from the eruption and subsequent starvation 71,000 people were killed as a direct result of the explosion- approx. 4 times the power of Krakatoa's blast. This climate anomaly has been blamed for the severity of typhus epidemics in southeast Europe and the eastern Mediterranean between 1816 and 1819. The climate changes disrupted the Indian monsoons, caused three failed harvests and famine contributing to the spread of a new strain of Cholera originating in Bengal in 1816. Many livestock died in New England during the winter of 1816–1817. Cool temperatures and heavy rains resulted in failed harvests in Britain and Ireland. Families in Wales travelled long distances as refugees, begging for food. Famine was prevalent in north and southwest Ireland, following the failure of wheat, oat , and potato harvests. The crisis was severe in Germany, where food prices rose sharply and demonstrations in front of grain markets and bakeries, followed by riots, arson, and looting, took place in many European cities. It was the worst famine of the 19th century and genuine 'volcanic winter'.[wiki]http://www.wired.com/2015/04/tambora-1815-just-big-eruption/ Compared to Tambora, Mt St Helens, a VEI 5 (as was Vesuvius)...was a burp...