View Mount Tambora Eruption Death Toll Pictures. The death toll of the 1815 eruption of mount tambora is difficult to determine. Although its eruption reached a with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7.
The most recent eruption of tambora was in 1967.
Death tolls are staggeringly high and a total has never been calculated. If something like tambora blew its top now, a far greater. In 1815 mount tambora on the island of sumbawa in the dutch east indies, modern day indonesia, erupted. The eruption caused global climate anomalies that included the phenomenon known as volcanic winter: