38+ Mount Tambora Whts Happened During The Eruption Background. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century. It has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption when the top third of the mountain was.
Mount tambora is an active volcano on the island of sumbawa in indonesia.
The mount tambora eruption was a volcanic eruption that had a vei of 7. The eruption of tambora was ten times more powerful than that of krakatau, which is 900 miles away. It was so dark that they could not distinguish between ships and coastlines. I was joined on this video by kirstin gardiner, who wrote the script.