Characteristics Mount Tambora
Mount Tambora is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. The mountain is located in the district of Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara Province.
Tambora is formed by the subduction zone beneath. This increases up to 4300 m altitude Tambora which makes this mountain was once one of the highest peak in Indonesia and drying large magma chamber inside the mountain. It took centuries to refill the magma chamber.
This volcanic activity reached its peak in April 1815 when it erupted in the scale of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. The eruption's largest eruption since the Lake Taupo eruption in the year 181.
This eruption came to the island of Sumatra (over 2,000 km). Volcanic ash falls in Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Java and the Moluccas. This eruption caused the death of up to no less than 71,000 people with 11,000 to 12,000 of whom were killed directly as a result of the eruption. Even some researchers estimate up to 92,000 people were killed, but this figure is questionable because based on estimates that are too high. Moreover, this eruption caused global climate change. The following year (1816) is often referred to as the Year Without a Summer because of the drastic change of weather North America and Europe due to dust generated from this Tambora eruption. As a result of drastic climate change is a lot of crop failure and livestock deaths in the Northern Hemisphere that caused the worst famine in the 19th century.
Geological Agency of the United States until the eruption of Tambora crowned as the most powerful volcanic eruptions in history. The eruption of Tambora even 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa, and 10 thousand times greater than the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland last year the European air traffic mess.
During an archaeological excavation in 2004, a team of archaeologists found the remains were buried by the eruption of culture in 1815 at a depth of 3 meters in pyroclastic deposits. Artifacts were found in the same position when the eruption occurred in 1815. Because of the similar characteristics of this, these findings are often referred to as the "Pompeii of the east".
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