• Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies...
  • The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora resulted in one of the most powerful explosions ever recorded.
  • Before the 1815 eruption, Mount Tambora was one of the highest peaks in the Indonesian archipelago, measuring approximately 14,100 feet.
  • Mount Tambora is an active volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. Its eruption in 1815 is the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history and is...
  • The eruption of Mount Tambora created drought conditions over the North American continent, reducing the amount of freshwater that entered the Atlantic...
  • It has been estimated that Mount Tambora stood approximately 12,000 feet tall before the 1815 eruption when the top third of the mountain was completely...
  • Mount Tambora, volcanic mountain on Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
  • More than 13,000 feet high, Tambora blew up in 1815 and blasted 12 cubic miles of gases, dust and rock into the atmosphere and onto the island of Sumbawa...
  • On this day in 1815, Mount Tambora, seen here on April 10, 2020,by the Himawari-8 satellite produced the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded.
  • Tambora stood over 14,000 feet high in 1815, but when it blew its stack it hurled more than 4,000 feet off the top of it, leaving a crater more than four miles...
  • On April 10, 1815, the Indonesian volcano of Mount Tambora exploded in the largest eruption in recorded history.
  • In 1815 Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, modern day Indonesia, erupted. It was the largest volcanic eruption for 1,300 years.