View What Would Happen If Mount Tambora Eruption Again PNG. Mount tambora, is an active stratovolcano famous for its eruption in 1815 which was considered one of the most explosive volcanic eruptions in earthʼs history. Mt tambora lost a huge part of its peak, about 4,000 to 5,000 feet of the total height and in the peak to present low of the crater, which means a total of as far as a dinky eruption, they happened over the last 200 years and will not be much noticed.
For the people of indonesia, the enormous eruption of april 10 meant a tsunami that killed between 40,000 and 60,000 individuals, depending on your source.
The eruption was the most powerful in recorded memory, 10 times more powerful than the more famous krakatoa, a hundred times stronger than mount st. In lists of the 40 most. The 1815 eruption of mount tambora was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, with a volcanic explosivity index (vei) of 7. The island is in between tectonic plates, which creates a subduction.