June 10, 1867 Tsunami: Java, Indonesia
A tsunami caused by an earthquake began at Java, Indonesia on June 10, 1867. It killed 5 people, counting the earthquake or eruption that caused it.
Where the waves reached
The source of the tsunami. No runup with a place is recorded for it.
- Under 1 m
- 1 to 3 m
- 3 to 10 m
- 10 to 30 m
- 30 m and more
- Height not recorded
The tsunami
- Date
- June 10, 1867
- Source
- Java, Indonesia
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- The earthquake
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Very doubtful tsunami
- Source location
- 7.800° S, 110.400° E
The toll
- Deaths
- 5 with the earthquake or eruption that caused it
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million) with the earthquake or eruption that caused it
- Houses destroyed
- 372 with the earthquake or eruption that caused it
Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
A seaquake was observed in the backarc. While no tsunami occurred and the high inland intensities follow structural trends, frequently indicating an inland epicenter, there are no pervasive strike-slip faults here. The regional extent of moderate and high intensities suggests that this event may have occurred on the plate interface. (reference #8795)
Note: Reference #4659 lists this event as having a tsunami with 327 deaths/injuries, no other available reference mentions a tsunami
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Sources
Tsunami events and runups from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI tsunami event 5749.