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Get The Eruptions Of Mount Tambora PNG. Mount tambora is an active volcano on the island of sumbawa in indonesia. Its 1815 explosion was possibly the most destructive ever recorded.

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Tambora is classified by specialists as ultraplinian, the most violent of all categories of volcanic eruption, named in honour of the younger pliny's description of the destruction of pompeii. The tambora eruption was caused by ocean water penetrating cracks and fissures in the mountain. But in 1812, mount tambora became much more active.

The eruption was so violent that it changed the weather during a whole year.

Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century. It was generally believed that tambora was extinct, although natives living in the nearest village had reported rumblings from deep before the eruption, more than twelve thousand natives lived in the immediate vicinity of tambora. They never had a chance to escape. Every now and again mount tambora erupts.