View Pictures Of Mount Tambora Explosion Reality Pictures. .that scale, the 1815 eruption of mount tambora rates a very destructive 7. It has been estimated that mount tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the.
The explosion affected the world's climate, changing history in surprising ways.
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. Helens and five times more than the 1991 mount pinatubo eruptions). The volcano which erupted the worst in volcanic history. Of great significance in the longer term was that the tambora eruption ejected immense amounts of volcanic dust more than 140,000 ft into the stratosphere (25 times more than the 1980 mount st.