Mount Tambora | Location, Eruptions, Map, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月29日 · Mount Tambora, volcanic mountain on Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption killed at least 10,000 islanders and expelled enough ash, rock, and aerosols to block sunshine worldwide, lower the global temperature, and cause famine.
1815 eruption of Mount Tambora - Wikipedia
Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies, [2] and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history.
Mount Tambora - Wikipedia
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.
Volcán Tambora: así fue la explosión volcánica más violenta de …
2021年12月27日 · La erupción del Volcán Tambora, en Indonesia, provocó un periodo de enfriamiento mortífero que afectó al planeta entero. El 10 de abril de 1815, la isla indonesia de Sumbawa se convirtió en el punto cero de la peor erupción volcánica en tiempos modernos, y en ejemplo estremecedor de una catástrofe climática diseminada: la del Volcán ...
201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe
On April 10, 1815, Indonesia’s island of Sumbawa became ground zero for the worst volcanic eruption in modern times—and a chilling example of a widespread climate catastrophe. The Tambora...
The Eruption of Mount Tambora (1815-1818)
Mount Tambora (image above), a volcano on Sumbawa Island in present-day Indonesia (map below), erupted in April 1815. It was the most destructive explosion on Earth in the past 10,000 years. The volcano spewed 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of gasses, dust, and rock into the atmosphere and the surrounding area.
Tambora - Global Volcanism Program
Seen from the sea, Tambora volcano presents a broad, flat profile. The volcano, forming the 60-km-wide Sanggar Peninsula, is truncated by a 6-km-wide caldera. One of the world's largest eruptions during the last 10,000 years produced the present-day caldera in 1815.
The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption in History
2018年1月16日 · In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on Sumbawa, an island of modern-day Indonesia. Historians regard it as the volcano eruption with the deadliest known direct impact: roughly 100,000 people died in...
The Eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 - ThoughtCo
2019年7月23日 · On the evening of April 10, 1815, the eruptions intensified, and a massive major eruption began to blow the volcano apart. Viewed from a settlement about 15 miles to the east, it seemed that three columns of flames shot into the sky.
Tambora | Volcano World | Oregon State University
The largest known volcanic eruption of the last 200 years, that of Tambora on Sumbawa Island, Indonesia, occurred in 1815. Enormous volumes of pyroclastic flow followed by caldera collapse created an up to 10m wall of water that devastated the Indonesian shoreline.