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A 13,000-foot-high volcano on the island of Sumbawa, near Bali, Indonesia, was the primary cause of the Year Without a Summer. The eruption happened in April of 1815 and was one of the greatest volcanic eruptions in history. Its toll: perhaps as many as 90,000 lives.
Mar 1, 2013 · JUST BEFORE SUNSET on April 5, 1815, a massive explosion shook the volcanic island of Sumbawa in the Indonesian archipelago. For two hours, a stream of lava erupted from Mount Tambora, the...
Mount Tambora, or Tomboro, is an active stratovolcano in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Located on Sumbawa in the Lesser Sunda Islands, it was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it. Before 1815, its elevation reached more than 4,300 metres (14,100 feet) high, making it one of the tallest peaks in the Indonesian archipelago.
- 2,850 m (9,350 ft)
- Late Pleistocene-recent
- 1967
- In April, 1815, one of the most frightful eruptions recorded in history occurred in the province of Tomboro, in the island of Sumbawa, about 200 miles from the eastern extremity of Java.
Apr 10, 2015 · The violent eruption of the Tambora volcano in 1815 created a massive crater about 3.7 miles (six kilometers) across and 3,600 feet deep (1,100 meters). Photograph by NASA Earth Observatory....
Mar 31, 2015 · The eruption of Tambora in 1815 created a 6.5-km-wide and more than 1-km-deep caldera. Erupted products form the top of the caldera wall, as seen in the foreground, and an ephemeral lake and a...
Sep 17, 2019 · In April of 1815, Mount Tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa.
