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View Mount Tambora 1967 Eruption Facts Pics. Tambora stood over 14,000 feet high in 1815, but when it blew its stack it hurled more than 4,000 feet off the top of it, leaving a crater more than four miles across and 2,000 feet mount tambora is still active. Every now and again mount tambora erupts.

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It has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption when the top third of the mountain was. The eruption killed at least 10,000 islanders and expelled enough ash, rock, and aerosols to block sunshine worldwide, lower the global temperature, and cause. Only a few hundred people a year reach the top, by walking through thick.

The tambora eruption was caused by ocean water penetrating cracks and fissures in the mountain.

Only a few hundred people a year reach the top, by walking through thick. Before its eruption mount tambora was about 4,300 metres (14,000 feet) high. The most recent eruption of tambora was in 1967. Mount tambora also erupted at least three times before 1815, in 3900 bc, 3050 bc and 740 ad.