February 8, 1845 Eruption of Soputan
Soputan in Indonesia erupted on February 8, 1845 with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 2. The eruption killed 118 people, counting its secondary effects. It caused a tsunami.
Where it erupted
Soputan, Indonesia, with its other significant eruptions.
The eruption
- Date
- February 8, 1845
- Volcano
- Soputan, stratovolcano
- Country
- Indonesia
- Volcanic Explosivity Index
- 2, moderate (eruption column 1 to 5 km)
- Tsunami
- Yes: the tsunami it caused
- Earthquake
- Yes: the earthquake with it
- Location
- 1.112° N, 124.737° E
The toll
- Deaths
- 118 with the tsunamis, mudflows and other effects it caused
- Damage
- Moderate (about $1 to $5 million) with the tsunamis, mudflows and other effects it caused
- Houses destroyed
- Many (101 to 1,000) with the tsunamis, mudflows and other effects it caused
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.
Latter (1981) lists as an eruption that caused a tsunami.
More
Every eruption in 1845The 1800sSoputanEarthquakes near SoputanThis day in weather history
Sources
Volcanoes and significant eruptions 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. Volcano numbers are the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program’s. NCEI event 489.