200 years after Tambora, Indonesia most at risk of deadly volcanic blast

Two hundred years after the biggest volcanic blast in recorded history, scientists have ranked the countries most at risk of a deadly volcanic eruption, reports Live Science.

According to the article, April 10 marks the 200th anniversary of the 1815 Tambora eruption in Indonesia, and there is a 30 percent chance of another Tambora-size eruption striking this century, as explained in a new global volcanic hazard report prepared for the United Nations, the "Global volcanic hazards and risk," that will be published in May by Cambridge University Press.