Download Mount Tambora 1815 Facts Images. 1816 was called the year without a summer after the eruption of mount tambora in indonesia. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century.
Mount tambora, located on the island of sumbawa, indonesia is classified as a stratovolcano.
The eruption killed at least 10,000 islanders and expelled enough ash, rock, and aerosols to block sunshine worldwide, lower the global temperature, and cause. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it. Tambora emitted so much sulfur into the atmosphere that sunlight was dimmed around the world, and global temperatures fell be approximately 2 degrees fahrenheit (1 degree celsius) for several years after the eruption began. While investigating facts about mount tambora eruption and mount tambora 1815, i found out little known, but curios details like: