18+ When Was Mount Tambora Largest Eruption Pictures. Mount tambora, which produced one of the largest eruptions in recorded history on april 10, 1815, as seen in an image taken by an astronaut. The huge caldera — 3.7 miles (6 km) in diameter and 3,609 feet (1,100 meters) deep — formed when the eruption removed tambora's estimated 13.
The eruption blew 150 cubic km into the atmosphere, killing 10,000 people initially.
It's most famous for an enormous eruption in 1815, when the volcano detonated in the most powerful eruption in recorded. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it. It has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption when the top third of the mountain was completely obliterated. In 1815, the volcano mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the dutch east indies erupted in the most explosive volcanic eruption in human history.