1872 Eruption of Sinarka

Name: 1872 Eruption of Sinarka
Start: 1872
Location: Sinarka, Russia

1872 · VEI 4 · Deaths: many

Sinarka in Russia erupted in 1872 with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 4.

Where it erupted

Sinarka, Russia, with its other significant eruptions.

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The eruption

Date: 1872
Volcano: Sinarka, stratovolcano
Country: Russia
Volcanic Explosivity Index: 4, large (eruption column 10 to 25 km)
Killed by: Pyroclastic flows, surges and direct blasts
Location: 48.873° N, 154.182° E

The toll

Deaths: Many (about 101 to 1,000)

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.

Ainu village destroyed, possibly by incandescent avalanches; Gorshkov considers this eruption to be from Sinarka, not Kuntomintar.

Every eruption in 1872 The 1800s Sinarka Earthquakes near Sinarka

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 2818.