Download Mount Tambora Vei PNG. Mount tambora (or tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on sumbawa island, indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it.
The mount tambora eruption was a volcanic eruption that had a vei of 7.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7. Mount tambora, volcanic mountain on sumbawa island, indonesia, that in april 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption was so violent that it changed the weather during a whole year. The 1991 eruption of mount pinatubo was a vei 6.