Enormity of The Tambora Eruption and Its Impact for The World
Published by Enormous eruption of Tambora mount at 1815 had wide impact for history of the world. It changed world climate caused horrible disasters.
Tambora mount was the highest mountain in Indonesia before erupted in 1815. It was 4300 meters. After eruption, it’s 2851 meters now. Tambora mount is in Sumbawa Island, province of Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia.
Tambora mount started thundering at evening of April 5, 1815. Climax of Tambora eruption happened at April 10, 1815. It was a giant explosion. It was 7 VEI (Volcano Explosivity Index). The explosion was heard until Sumatra (more than 2000 km). The explosion left a crater with diameter 7 km and depth 800 meters.
According to US Geological Survey, Tambora eruption is the strongest in history (modern history). It’s 10 times bigger than Krakatau (Krakatoa) eruption. It’s 10,000 times bigger than eruption of Eyjafjallajokull (Iceland) that confused air traffic in Europe.
Tambora eruption resulted in disaster everywhere. Not only in Indonesia, even in the world.
Here the impact of Tambora eruption at 1815:
- More than 71,000 dead in Netherland Indies (now Indonesia). They were dead because of eruption impact, directly and indirectly (hunger, illness)
- Volcanic materials of Tambora fell into sea resulted in tsunami in some islands
- Millions tons of volcanic ash fulfilled air so the day time became dark
- 3 kingdoms in Tambora area lost: Tambora kingdom, Pekat kingdom, Sanggar kingdom
- Flood in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, until China land
- harvest failure in China, Europe, and Ireland
- Snow became chocolate in Hungary, and in Italy snow became red
- Rain happened for 8 week caused hunger and typhus endemic so more than 65,000 dead in England and Europe
- The long winter was assumed as cause of Napoleon’s defeat in Waterloo (Belgium) at June 18, 1815. Kenneth Spink, a geologist, said that one of cause of Napoleon’s defeat was consequence of eruption of Tambora. On a scientific meeting about Applied Geosciences in Warwick, England (1996), Spink said that Tambora eruption had given big impact to orderliness of world climate at that time. Including in Waterloo at June, 1815.
- Deadly frozen in Western Europe, US, and Canada. It triggered the first cholera endemic in the world
- 1816 was known as The Year Without Summer
- The situation inspired born of mysterious written, like Darkness (Lord Byron), The Vampire (Dr. John Palidori), and Frankenstein (Mary Shelley).
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On October 3, 2011 at 1:05 pm
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On October 3, 2011 at 1:24 pm
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On October 3, 2011 at 1:27 pm
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On October 3, 2011 at 2:16 pm
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On October 3, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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On October 3, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Scary and beautiful at the same time. Nature will never cease to amaze me with its wonders.
On October 3, 2011 at 4:57 pm
You’ve written plenty of good articles on Indonesia. This is one. Fascinating.
On October 3, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Nature is all powerful.
On October 3, 2011 at 7:35 pm
very informative…terima kasih my Friend
On October 3, 2011 at 8:17 pm
I hope that such catasthropic volcanic eruption will not happen again.
On October 3, 2011 at 8:35 pm
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This remids me of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in Philippines.
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