View Mount Tambora Date Of Eruption Background. Mount tambora is still considered an active volcano today, and since its 1815 eruption there has been three dates of recorded activity. An administrator of the east india company, sir.
The eruption, lasting more than three months, is the largest in recorded history and, arguably, the most influential on a global scale.
On this date in 1815 the eruption of mount tambora, one of the most powerful in recorded history, reached its peak. The eruption of tambora was ten times more powerful than that of krakatau, which is 900 miles away. Jutting from the northwestern corner of sumbawa island, mount tambora is just one of several volcanoes along the archipelago that makes up indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it.