What the records say
- When
- 10 Apr 1815
- Kind
- Volcanic eruption
- Where
- Indonesia
- Coordinates
- 8.25° S, 118.00° E
- Vei
- 7
- Deaths
- 60000
- Volcano type
- Stratovolcano
1815 eruption of Mount Tambora
Catastrophic volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815
In April 1815, Mount Tambora, a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, erupted in what is now considered the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history. This eruption, with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 7, ejected 37–45 km3 of dense-rock equivalent (DRE) material into the atmosphere, and was the most recent confirmed VEI-7 eruption.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies blows its top explosively during its peak eruption”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hollanda Doğu Hint Adaları'nda volkanik Tambora Dağı patlaması gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en las islas menores de la Sonda (Indonesia) se produce la erupción del volcán Tambora con gran explosividad, dejando un saldo de alrededor de 82 000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “印尼坦博拉火山爆发，造成92000人死亡。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “オランダ領東インドのタンボラ山が大噴火。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page