26+ How Did Mount Tambora Erupt In 1815 Gif. 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. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th on april 5, 1815, the volcano began to erupt.
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.
With an estimated ejecta volume of 160 cubic kilometers, tambora's 1815 outburst was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The world at that time was like doomsday 'doomsday 1815'. By the summer of 1816, the eruption of mount tambora, on the island of sumbawa, indonesia, had decreased temperatures in the northern hemisphere by an average of 0.53 degrees, resulting in approximately 75,000 human deaths and the 'year without a summer'. By using thermometers to * * * far from tambora and the island of java, a different sort of shock greeted the rulers and citizens of europe in april 1815: