At the time, researchers noted that comparisons to the famed 1883 explosion of Indonesia's Krakatoa volcano put the Tonga blast in the running for the largest explosion ever recorded by modern ...

A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali ... Phreatic eruptions also took place during the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883, which killed 40,000 people.

Tambora, in 1815, resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people directly from the blast, and tens of millions due to ...