Get After Mount Tambora PNG. Mount tambora was the largest volcanic eruption of 19th century. Mount tambora , also called mount tamboro , indonesian gunung tambora , volcanic mountain on the northern coast of sumbawa island, indonesia , that in april 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic.
A stratovolcano is steeper than a typical mountain and has a history of active or dormant volcanic occurrences.
The largest volcanic explosion in recorded history, in april 1815 tambora erupted so violently that it was heard over 2,000 kilometres away. /caption mount tambora is an active stratovolcano on sumbawa island in indonesia. Minor lava domes and flows have been extruded on the caldera floor during the 19th and 20th centuries.1 density of fallen ash after the eruption of tambora in 1815. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zone beneath it.