On 15 July 1815, Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia (then part of the Dutch East Indies), erupted in what is now considered the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. [2]

2025年2月7日 · Mount Tambora, volcanic mountain on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. It is now 2,851 metres (9,354 feet) high, having lost much of its top in the 1815 eruption.

Tambora violently erupted in a series of eruptions beginning on 5 April 1815, culminating in the largest eruption in recorded human history and the largest of the Holocene (10,000 years ago to present).

The eruption of Mount Tambora triggered The Panic of 1819, the first major economic depression in the U.S. In 1819, heavy investments in western U.S. agriculture after the Year without a Summer were lost when harvests stabilized in Europe, reducing European reliance on …

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...

Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in April in modern-day Indonesia (commonly referred to as the Dutch East Indies at the time).

2020年4月10日 · Mount Tambora, located on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, is an active stratovolcano that was one of the tallest mountains in all of Indonesia before its eruption. After the event, its height decreased from 14,100 feet to just under 10,000.

2025年1月2日 · In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth’s climate for years and even led to the “year without summer” in 1816.

2019年7月23日 · The tremendous eruption of Mount Tambora in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 19th century. The eruption and the tsunamis it triggered killed tens of thousands of people.

Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano and forms the entire 37.3-mile- (60-km-) wide Sanggar peninsula on Sumbawa island, Indonesia. Its eruption in April of 1815 is the largest observed eruption in recorded history.