KOMPAS.com – In April 1815, Mount Tambora Explode. Until now it is considered as one of the eruptions of Mount Tambora volcano The most powerful in the written history of the world.
How not, the volcano on the island Zumba, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) spewed 150 cubic kilometers of ash during an eruption. The aerosol released also reaches 60 megatons.
The eruption created a caldera with a diameter of 7 km and a depth of 1.1 km which is the deepest caldera in the world.
The impact was not small, with an estimated 92,000 lives lost in the April 1815 eruption.
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No wonder the Tambora eruption was recorded as the most powerful eruption recorded in modern times, because it reached magnitude 7 from the Volcanic Eruption Index (VEI) side.
But the doctor said. . Ikan Supriyatman Sudavitjaja, a volcanologist from the Indonesian Geological Survey (IAGI), said the Tambora eruption was not sudden but gradual.
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On the website titled Traces of the Tambora Civilization: A View of Hope After the Disaster, Quoted by Kompas.com, Friday (30/7/2021) from the Balar Pali YouTube channel, at least since 1812, Tambora has begun to show his activities.
Unfortunately at that time, the people around Tambora thought it was just a trivial matter and did nothing. Finally, the peak of the eruption occurred on April 10-11, 1815.
The impact of the eruption of Mount Tambora
The massive eruption also destroyed the civilization around Tambora.
At that time there were three kingdoms in the volcanic region, namely Tambora, Baghdad and Shankar.
Deployment Warm clouds It excluded those kingdoms and buried most of the land around the mountain, costing a lot of money.
Panorama of Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island.
Warm clouds According to Ikon, the temperature reached 800 degrees Celsius so that nothing in its path immediately turned to charcoal, including the houses of residents who did not have time to save themselves and residents who were still using wood at that time.
“The eruption was to the west, south and north, it was the territory of the Tambora and Pegot kingdoms,” said Igan.
“The area 600 km west of the mountain experienced darkness for 3 days,” he added.
Meanwhile, Tambora’s ash spread around the world for 3 months, reaching the Arctic region despite being pushed by the wind.
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The Northern Hemisphere also experienced a temperature drop of up to 11 degrees Celsius after a massive eruption that created an eruption column that spanned 43 km that triggered the event. A year without summer 1816 was a year without summer.
Meanwhile, the Shankar kingdom was lucky because the hot clouds did not point directly to the east so that Shankar Raja was able to save himself.
Nevertheless, even after the disaster, the Shankar kingdom still had to struggle to get out of trouble.
Albert Golfs, a Belgian scientist who arrived years after the eruption, said conditions in the kingdom were much worse and worse.
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