The deadliest volcanic eruption in the last 10,000 years occurred on Tambora on Sumbawa, an island east of Bali in Indonesia. It killed 92,000 people in April 1815. Twelve thousand died in the blast; the remainder died in tsunamis or starved to death because their crops and livestock were destroyed, mostly on Sumbawa and Lombok. [Source: Robert Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, July 2002]