View Before And After Mount Tambora Eruption Pictures. Apart from killing tens of thousands of people and plunging south. Its eruption in 1815 is the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history and is considered one of the greatest natural disasters ever to befall mankind.
In 1815, the volcano mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the dutch east indies erupted in the most explosive volcanic eruption in human history.
The eruptions' column was so high it reached the stratosphere at an altitude of more than 43 kilometres. The effects of the eruption led to the largest death toll of any volcanic eruption in. Mount tambora is still considered an active volcano today, and since its 1815 eruption there has been three dates of recorded activity. Tambora is a volcano that lies east of bali and lombok.