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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.
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.
Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatoa for its global effects in 1883, [1] the Lake Toba Caldera for its supervolcanic eruption estimated to have occurred 74,000 years before present which was responsible for six years of volcanic winter, [2] and Mount Tambora for the most violent eruption in recorded ...
The eruption of Tambora occurred near the end of the Little Ice Age, exacerbating the background global cooling of the period. [14] This period also occurred during the Dalton Minimum, a period of relatively low solar activity from 1790 to 1830. May 1816 had the lowest Wolf number (0.1) to date since records on solar activity began. It is not ...
After erupting 25 times in the last 12,000 years, the Taupo volcano last erupted in 232, resulting in one of the largest and most violent eruptions seen on Earth. ... 1815: Mount Tambora, Indonesia.
Another active major volcano in the region is Mount Tambora, whose eruption in 1815 led to global climate abnormalities in the subsequent year, known as the Year Without a Summer. Seismic studies have shown clusters of seismic events beneath active island-arc volcanoes, which may be a result of the collision zone. [47] [48]
Two of the four eruptions were previously identified: Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded in 1815, and Cosegüina erupted in Nicaragua in 1835. The volcano that produced the 1808/1809 eruption ...
Tambora: 10 April 1815 Indonesia 2 7 This was the world's greatest eruption since the end of the ice age. [18] The ash and smoke blanketed the Northern Hemisphere and caused "The year without summer" [19] Stratovolcano: Galunggung Volcano 1822 Indonesia unknown 5 The mudflows killed over 4000 people and destroyed more than 114 villages. [20 ...