Download How Was Mount Tambora Made Pics. Apart from killing tens of thousands of people and plunging south. 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 completely obliterated.
This is a difficult mountain to reach let alone climb.
Mount tambora caused more than 92,000 deaths. When the eruption was over, a caldera 6 km (3.7 miles) in diameter had formed, and more than 70,000 had died in the surroundings areas, making this the greatest death toll. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century. Mount tambora, volcanic mountain on sumbawa island, indonesia, that in april 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.