35+ Mount Tambora Tectonic Plate Background. Science daily news convergent boundaries creating deadly volcano convergent boundaries are when tectonics plate move toward each other. At divergent boundary, tectonic plates move apart from one another.
In the case of mount tambora, the australian plate slides below the eurasian plate.
This volcano is located on a convergent boundary between the eurasian and philippine plate. Magma is rising up all along that boundary, making indonesia a very active area. It was 1816 known as the year without a summer that was caused by a massive 1815 eruption of mount tambora in the dutch east indies. It shook the world in many ways, some you won't believe.