Mount Tambora: 1815 eruption
The eruption of Mount Tambora, which began on April 5, 1815, devastated much of the island of Sumbawa and the surrounding region and influenced weather across the globe.
Mount Tambora 200 Years Later
It’s been 200 years since Mount Tambora’s 1815
eruption.
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April 5, 2015, marks 200 years since the beginning of the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The catastrophic blast that blew off the top of the volcano—killing tens of thousands of people on the island of Sumbawa and in the surrounding region and bringing about the “year without a summer”—took place on April 10.