16+ Mount Tambora Most Famous Eruption Gif. Every now and again mount tambora erupts. 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.
On april 10, 1815, mount tambora produced one of the largest eruptions in recorded history, spewing so much ash into the the similarity of the tambora remains to those associated with the eruption of mount vesuvius in the year 79 has led to the tambora site's description as the pompeii of the east.
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. It brought about the year without a summer. The gargantuan blast — 100 times bigger than mount st. 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.