Download Mount Tambora Eruption 1815 Facts Pictures. Reaching a height of 2,851 meters, tambora is the tallest peak in indonesia outside of papua and has been mostly dormant since 1815. The magnitude of the explosion itself is difficult to fathom.
The magnitude of the explosion itself is difficult to fathom.
This active stratovolcano is located at the northern part of sumbawa. 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. Five days later, the volcanic mountain erupted. Tambora tambora (northern sumbawa) is the volcano that erupted spectacularly in 1815 with five times the force of krakatau.