Podcast describes the Krakatoa volcanic eruption of 1883 as the most powerful in human history. Mount Tambora's eruption in 1815 was significantly more powerful. Tambora is the only modern volcanic eruption with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7. Krakatoa was one of several in a 100-year span with a VEI of 6. Tambora's eruption was so catastrophic that 1816 came to be known as "the Year Without a Summer", and the resulting famines killed thousands. Krakatoa is better known because it occurred after the invention of the telegraph. Podcast described Krakatoa as the "most violent earthquake in history," a more subjective term than "most powerful."
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