Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/1257 Samalas eruption

1257 Samalas eruption

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The result was: not scheduled by Gog the Mild (talk) 20:59, 26 July 2022 (UTC)



The Samalas volcano erupted in 1257 on Lombok Island in Indonesia. The eruption had a probable Volcanic Explosivity Index of 7, making it one of the largest eruptions of the current Holocene epoch. It left behind a large caldera that contains Lake Segara Anak (pictured). Eruption columns tens of kilometres high and pyroclastic flows buried much of the island and destroyed human habitations, including the city of Pamatan. The volcano deposited more than 10 km3 of rocks and ash; some ash fell as far as 340 km away in Java. Aerosols injected into the atmosphere reduced the solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface, lowering temperatures for several years and leading to crop failures and famines in Europe and elsewhere. The eruption may have helped trigger the Little Ice Age, a centuries-long cold period. Later volcanic activity created additional volcanic centres in the caldera, including the Barujari cone, which remains active.
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 * Promoted: May 13, 2019
 * Reasons for nomination: 765 years since the event (exact date is not provided, but the article states it probably happened sometime in September). Indo-Pacific region is underrepresented in TFA. Blurb was written by Dank and copied from the FAC talk page.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 13:56, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose until we have an exact date for the eruption. Given the extistence of admittedly sparse historical records that are being uncovered from the region, it's quite probable that during the next few years we'll see one being discovered that gives an exact date of the eruption. I'd rather wait for this date to emerge, than to pick another one at random. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 20:30, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * In light of the above, let's withdraw this then and it'll be renominated when a date is verified. Z1720 (talk) 20:37, 15 July 2022 (UTC)