View Mount Tambora Indonesia 1815 Eruption Pictures. It brought about the year without a summer. An administrator of the east india company, sir.
The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7.
It was generally believed that tambora was extinct, although natives living in the in the end, perhaps another seventy to eighty thousand people died from starvation or disease caused by the eruption, bringing the death toll to nearly ninety thousand in indonesia alone. Could very likely have been caused by the catastrophic eruption of mount tambora, which climaxed on 10 april 1815. Tambora in indonesia had exploded and cause a whole year of summer that was more like winter and a great famine occurred because of it in 1815, the volcano of tambora suffered the most violent eruption in modern times. Accounts of the tambora eruption were considerably rarer, yet some vivid ones do exist.