stackyFACTSWhen Mount Tambora blew its top in 1815, it ejected so much ash into the atmosphere that the following year became known as the "Year Without a Summer." Frost ruined harvests worldwide in July, making it the worst seasonal disappointment in recorded human existence.
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Thanks to a series of violent seismic shifts in 1811, the Mississippi River violently changed course, completely isolating a chunk of Kentucky. The 'Kentucky…
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Charles Richter developed a mathematical system to measure seismic energy release. Because it scales logarithmically, a magnitude eight is exponentially more…
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Lake Nyos looks perfectly peaceful, but in 1986 it suddenly released a massive invisible bubble of carbon dioxide from deep volcanic vents. The dense gas…
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Before satellites and high-tech radar, scientists just tied a thermometer to a string and hoped for the best. Early weather researchers literally flew massive…
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The Rocky Mountain Trench is a massively long, completely straight geological depression stretching nearly a thousand miles through British Columbia. Visible…
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The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake remains the most devastating seismic event ever logged in terrestrial history. Striking a densely populated region where many…
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