Tambora (Indonesia)

Status Unknown Eruption 1967 2850m
Stratovolcano (Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km))



Tambora volcano on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island was the site of the world's largest historical eruption in April 1815. This NASA Landsat mosaic shows the 6-km-wide caldera truncating the 2850-m-high summit of the massive volcano. Pyroclastic flows during the 1815 eruption reached the sea on all sides of the 60-km-wide volcanic peninsula, and the ejection of large amounts of tephra caused world-wide temperature declines in 1815 and 1816.

NASA Landsat7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)

Last updated 2019-12-07 17:30:03

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