An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.

The Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago where earthquakes and tidal waves are common. The islands are currently disputed territory between Russia and Japan.

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Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate ...

Dec 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Kuril Islands ... GFZ said. The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back ...

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its ...

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

It's on the remote and uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the long chain of Kuril Islands off the coast of Russia and Japan. Scientists say that during the Cold War, the Soviets were ...

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

It is situated on Simushir Island, a part of the Kuril Islands archipelago -- a disputed area by Russia and Japan. As per their analysis, the last eruption from Zavaritskii was in 800 BC.

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...