View Mount Tambora Eruption Type Pictures. Apart from killing tens of thousands of people and plunging south. Mount tambora, or tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in the northern part of sumbawa, one of the lesser sunda islands of indonesia.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7.
Scientists unearthing the site have discovered ceramic pots With over 70,000 deaths and a rating of 7 on the volcanic. It lies approximately 210 miles north of the java this year marks the 202nd anniversary of the eruption of mount tambora. 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.