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Download Mount Tambora Past Eruptions PNG. Its 1815 explosion was possibly the most destructive ever recorded. 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.

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The 1815 eruption is rated 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, the only such eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad. Mount tambora, located on the island of sumbawa, indonesia is classified as a stratovolcano. But in 1812, mount tambora became much more active, culminating in a series of eruptions in april, 1815.

Modern scientists identify and measure past eruptions using layers of volcanic debris found in ice cores, lake.

Mount tambora (or tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on sumbawa island, indonesia. The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful in human recorded history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7. Tambora was a volcanic cone more than 4,000 meters high and 60 kilometers in diameter at sea level, densely blanketed in forest. On april 10, 1815, mount tambora produced one of the largest eruptions in recorded history, spewing so much ash into the atmosphere that it caused global cooling.