34+ Mount Tambora Eruption 1815 Background. Tambora stood over 14,000 feet high in 1815, but when it blew its stack it hurled more than 4,000 feet off the top of it, leaving a crater more than four miles across and 2,000 feet deep. Mount tambora, is an active stratovolcano famous for its eruption in 1815 which was considered one of the most explosive volcanic eruptions in earthʼs history.
For two hours, a stream of lava erupted from mount tambora, the highest.
About 150 cubic kilometers of ash were erupted (about 150 times more than the 1980 eruption of mount st. The volcano, which began rumbling on april 5, killed almost 100,000 people directly and indirectly. Mount tambora, or tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in west nusa tanagra, sumbawa, indonesia in one of the lesser sunda islands of indonesia.it was formed due to the active subduction zones beneath it, and before its 1815 eruption, it was more than 4,300 metres (14,100 feet) high, making it one of the tallest peaks in the indonesian archipelago. The most destructive explosion on earth in the past 10,000 years was the eruption of an obscure volcano in indonesia called mounttambora.