45+ Eruption Of Mount Tambora 1815 Video Pictures. In 1815, the volcano mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the dutch east indies erupted in the most explosive volcanic. The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7.
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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. On april 5, 1815, the giant mount tambora, which at that time had an altitude of around 4,300 meters above sea level (masl), in the sanggar peninsula, sumbawa island. Space shuttle image of tambora (false color) taken in may 1992. This was the world's greatest ash eruption (so far as is definitely known) since the end of the last ice age.