island of Sumbawa

Climber may remember a little event with the world's largest volcanic eruptions when Mount Tambora, located on the island of Sumbawa this burst on 5 April 1815. at that time almost all the people of Indonesia can be heard. Approximately three years before the eruption of the studio has seen a very high activity of this Mt.
On 5 April 1815 explosion boom bang mountain to hear this - Jakarta (1250 km) and Ternate (1400 km). Rain fell in the first gray Besuki East Java. On 10 and 11 April 1815 Mount Tambora eruption boom sounded to Bangka Island (1500 km) and Bengkulu (1775 km) and the earthquake that occurred simultaneously with the explosion heard up to this mountain to Surabaya (600 km). And resulted in approximately 92,000 people died.

in the year 1812 kaldera Tambora start and roll out black smoke, even on 10-11 April 1815 to hear a voice thundering sumatra island (2600 km. pad on 6 April 1815 gray vulkanik start besuki bred down in the east java. 19.00 on 10 April 1815 , bursting the stronger this mountain. Three column of fire and radiated join.The whole mountain turned into streams of fire. Stone float with diameter 20 cm rain began at 8:00 pm, followed by gray at 9: 00-10:00 pm. piroklastik hot streams flow down towards the sea across the peninsula, to destroy the village Tambora. The explosion sounded great until the afternoon on 11 April. Abu spread to West Java and South Sulawesi. smell nitrate in Batavia and the big rain along with the ashes tefrit fall, finally let up date between 11 and 17 April 1815