24+ Mount Tambora In Sumbawa Island Background. An estimated 150 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of tephra—exploded rock and ash—resulted, with ash from the. Apart from killing tens of thousands of people and plunging south.
Jutting from the northwestern corner of sumbawa island, mount tambora is just one of several volcanoes along the archipelago that makes up indonesia.
137 likes · 2 talking about this · 773 were here. The eruption of 1815, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, killed over 100,000 people and caused a climate cooling in 1816. Mount tambora (or tamboro) is an active stratovolcano which is a peninsula of the island of sumbawa in indonesia. 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.