GVP volcano 264040 · no holder yet
Tambora
Tambora is a 2,850 m stratovolcano in Indonesia, last erupted in 1967.
- Type
- Stratovolcano (composite landform)
- Summit
- 2,850 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
- Setting
- Subduction zone, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 1967
- Largest known
- VEI 7, super-colossal, 1812
- Eruptions
- 7 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 8.25°S 118.00°E · Indonesia
- Region
- Sunda Volcanic Arc, Sunda-Banda Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 264040
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).