Rinjani
Indonesia · Stratovolcano · -8.42, 116.47 · volcano number 264030
Nothing above background is currently reported at this system. For a volcano outside the United States and Japan that means only that it is not in the Smithsonian's weekly report, not that it is quiet.
What this system is
| Type | Stratovolcano |
|---|---|
| Country | Indonesia |
| Position | -8.42, 116.47 |
| Why it is on this list | named supereruption |
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 6 significant earthquakes and 2 significant eruptions at or within 40 km of this volcano since 1994.
The deadliest was the 5 August 2018 magnitude 6.9 earthquake (Indonesia: Lombok Island), which killed 560 people.
The most recent entry is the 17 March 2019 magnitude 5.6 earthquake (Indonesia: Lombok Island), which killed 6 people.
Across the entries that record a death toll, 633 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2018 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 560 dead, $509 million damage |
| 3 November 1994 | VEI 3 eruption | Rinjani, Lesser Sunda Is | 31 dead |
| 28 July 2018 | magnitude 6.4 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 17 dead, 5,448 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 19 August 2018 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 11 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 9 August 2018 | magnitude 5.9 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 6 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 17 March 2019 | magnitude 5.6 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 6 dead, 843 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 19 August 2018 | magnitude 6.3 earthquake | Indonesia: Lombok Island | 2 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 27 September 2016 | VEI 2 eruption | Rinjani, Lesser Sunda Is | - |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
What this rests on
The 1257 eruption of Samalas, inside what is now the Rinjani complex, was a probable VEI 7 that buried much of Lombok and left the caldera holding Segara Anak.
That sentence is ours. A fuller account, with its own citations, is where to check it. It was a quotation from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program until September 2026, when their terms stopped being compatible with a site carrying advertising.
Who watches it
Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi (PVMBG) monitors this system and publishes its alert level. https://magma.esdm.go.id/v1
In an eruption, that observatory is the authority. This page follows it; it does not compete with it.
Other systems tracked
Where these numbers come from
National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Volcanic Eruptions Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5JW8BSH Licence: NOAA NCEI: access to this dataset is unrestricted (US federal work, public domain). Positions and eruption records come from that database; the sentence above is ours. Alert levels come from the publishing observatory.