31+ Mount Tambora Tectonic Setting Pics. The island is in between tectonic plates, which creates a subduction. Mount tambora is on the island at the southeastern corner (lower right) of the sundra plate.
The eruption killed at least 10,000 islanders and expelled enough ash, rock, and aerosols to block sunshine worldwide, lower the global temperature, and cause.
Volcano project 2016 ( mount tambora). Mount tambora is in sumbawa, lesser sunda islands, indonesia. Tambora is located in the indonesian region, a chain of thousands of islands that stretch from southeast asia to australia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it.