13+ The Eruption Of Mount Tambora Pics. Encyclopædia britannica, inc./kenny chmielewski and christine mccabe. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century.
While there were other eruptions in 1815, tambora.
The island is in between tectonic plates, which creates a subduction. Causing temperatures to drop down by 0.4 and 0.7 degrees worldwide. The 1815 eruption is rated 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, the only such eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad. Mount tambora experienced several centuries of dormancy before 1815, caused by the gradual cooling of hydrous magma in its closed magma chamber.