View Mount Tambora Supervolcanoes Pictures. Mount tambora is considered a supervolcano. Mount tambora is a mountain with the most devastating eruption in the history of human civilization.
Mount tambora (or tamboro) is an active stratovolcano which is a peninsula of the island of sumbawa in 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. Mount tambora (gunung tambora) is located on the island of sumbawa in west nusa tenggara, indonesia. The 1815 eruption was very deadly because mount tambora is a supervolcano. After 150 cubic kilometers were blasted out of the volcano, and the caldera collapsed, tambora had dropped.