Mount Tambora is located in Dompu Indonesia is one of the mountains of the most major impact if it erupts. On 10 April 1815 ago, the eruption of Mount Tambora able to spend 50-150 cubic kilometers of magma.
Facts of history associated with the eruption of Tambora:
1. The most powerful eruption in Human Memory
The eruption of Tambora has been remembered as the most powerful eruption in the history of human memory. Tambora at least has been spewing ash and pyroclastic rocks of a hundred cubic kilometers! More powerful than Krakatoa which entrails wreak nearly 20 cubic kilometers, or Huaynaputina which spewed 30 cubic kilometers. Even Vesuvius and Pinatubo spewed jeroannya just less than ten cubic kilometers.
2. Most tumbal
Of the 12,000 people who inhabit the waist Tambora, almost entirely destroyed in a day in its first eruption, volcanic ash and slammed pyroclastic flow. Of these, only 26 survived.
3. A third Missing Body
Before the 1815 eruption, Mount Tambora volcanic cone shaped high or stratovulcano. What a spectacular eruption of Tambora as high has cut into 2,851 meter mountain, which was originally about 4,000 meters.
4. Snow redden Europe
"Snow heaviest ever known in the country, down in Terrano, Italy, on December 31," the news Niles' Weekley Register published on Saturday, May 18th 1816. "The snow was red and yellow! The phenomenon of repercussion because of fear and anxiety in the community. "At that moment everyone is not aware of the causes of Europe memerahnya snow.
5. Linkages Volcano and Weather
Lessons are unleashed a terrifying eruption of Tambora has alerted the man that there is a linkage between volcanic activity and climate change. In 1816, the European region threatened by food shortages as livestock and crops destroyed. At the same time, erratic temperature in the northern hemisphere stricken American hot and cold temperatures. Meanwhile, the American northeast precisely hit by the cold temperatures gripping.
