14+ Eruption Of Mount Tambora I Background

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14+ Eruption Of Mount Tambora I Background. Tambora is classified by specialists as ultraplinian, the most violent of all categories of volcanic eruption, named in honour of the younger pliny's description of the destruction of pompeii. Its eruption in 1815 is the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history and is considered one of the greatest natural disasters ever to befall mankind.

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The 1815 eruption is rated 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, the only such eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad. Its last eruption in 1815 has eliminated nearly half the altitude from 4,300 masl to 2,851 masl and left the widest caldera in indonesia. Accounts of the tambora eruption were considerably rarer, yet some vivid ones do exist.

The eruption was so violent that it changed the weather during a whole year.

200 years ago, mount tambora exploded and changed the world. Mount tambora, located on the island of sumbawa, indonesia is classified as a stratovolcano. It is also known as a. Mount tambora experienced several centuries of dormancy before 1815, caused by the gradual cooling of hydrous magma in its closed magma chamber.