View Mount Tambora Erupted Ash Pictures. 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. Mount asama, located 145 km (90 miles) northwest of tokyo, erupted at approximately 1:51 a.m.
Although the tambora eruption was the largest eruption in recorded history, it was the eruption sent so much volcanic ash into the atmosphere that weather patterns around the world were.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century. Geologists have estimated that mount tambora erupted with a force of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index; That's 4 times more powerful than the 1883 krakatoa eruption.