“Disaster Wildcards” are horrific once-in-a-century disasters that could conceivably happen in the near-term future.
“The deadliest volcano in the planet is ready to explode again,” Gizmodo. All about Mt Tamboara, on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia, which last erupted in 1815, killed 71,000, and caused a worldwide famine in the 1800s because of volcanic ash. Experts think it’s ready to erupt again and the government has established a 2-mile perimeter.
Another volcano in the area, Krakatoa, was possibly responsible for everything from the Black Plague to the end of the Roman Empire and the success of the Celtic missionary movement that evangelized Europe; the latter caused a demographic boom that led indirectly to the Protestant Reformation. Mt Tamboara, due to its location, is near the many volcanoes around Indonesia–and to many of the unreached peoples in the region as well.
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