23+ Mount Tambora 1815 Eruption Damage Images. Accounts of the tambora eruption were considerably rarer, yet some vivid ones do exist. The most globally damaging volcanic eruption in recorded history was the 1815 eruption of mount tambora in indonesia.
With an estimated ejecta volume of 160 cubic kilometers, tambora's 1815 outburst was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
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. Also known as a composite volcano, tambora is a tall conical volcano (cone like structure) where layers of the walls are built by hardened lava and volcanic ash. The eruption of mount tambora was the largest eruption ever witnessed. Eksplosionen blev hørt 2.600 kilometer væk, og aske.