Get What Happened In The Mount Tambora Eruption PNG. The eruption was the most powerful in recorded memory, 10 times more powerful than the more famous krakatoa, a hundred times stronger than mount st. 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.
When tambora erupted in april of 1815, the blast was so loud it could be heard 1,200 miles away.
The 1815 eruption is rated 7 on the volcanic explosivity index, the only such eruption since the lake taupo eruption in about 180 ad. Mt tambora lost a huge part of its peak, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet of the total height and in the peak to present low of the crater, which means a total of as far as a dinky eruption, they happened over the last 200 years and will not be much noticed. The eruption of mount tambora in 1815 caused famine because the molten lava destroyed all of the crops and caused drought because the lava dried out mount tambora is considered a super volcano by most scientists, it is not dormant however the next eruption is not the due for about 50,000 years. If such a cataclysmic event happened now, the results would be even messier, experts say.