28+ Mount Tambora Type Of Volcano Background. After a large magma chamber inside the mountain filled over the course of several decades, volcanic activity reached a. Mount tambora, or tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in the northern part of sumbawa, one of the lesser sunda islands of indonesia.
Mount tambora, or tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in the northern part of sumbawa, one of the lesser sunda islands of indonesia.
More than 13,000 feet high, tambora blew up in 1815 and blasted 12 cubic miles of gases. About 150 cubic kilometers of ash were erupted (about 150 times more than the 1980 eruption of mount st. Whirlwinds and tsunamis from the eruption of mount tambora, on sumbawa island in indonesia, killed at least 10,000 people, according to the. Starting on april 5, 1815 a series of massive eruptions began.