34+ Mount Tambora 1816 Eruption Images. It brought about the year without a summer. The volcanic explosivity index (vei) is used to measure the explosiveness of 1816, the year following the eruption, is known as the year without a summer.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora in indonesia has long been assumed to have been the cause, with a link made as early as 1913.
Page history last edited by robinsow.2013@. The 1815 eruption is rated 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, the only such eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad. In 1815 mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the dutch east indies, modern day indonesia, erupted. Now, using historical data and modern modeling techniques, researchers led by the university of edinburgh, uk, have estimated just how important the eruption.