Major Eruption

Below is a list of selected major eruptions of volcanoes in Indonesia, sorted chronologically by the starting date of the eruption. Only eruptions with scale 3 or above on VEI are given with known sources and fatalities, except if smaller scale eruptions resulted some fatalities.

Eruption date	Volcano	Cessation date	VEI	Characteristics	Tsunami	Tephra volume	Fatality	Sources
3 November 2010	Merapi	8 November 2010	4	cv,pf,ld,lm	no	N/A	138	[5]
10 February 1990	Kelut	March 1990	4	cv,cl,pf,ph,ld,lm	no	0.13 km³	35	[27]
18 July 1983	Colo	December 1983	4	cv,pf,ph	no	N/A	0	[27]
5 April 1982	Galunggung	8 January 1983	4	cv,pf,lf,lm	no	0.37 km³ +	68	[28][29]
6 October 1972	Merapi	March 1985	2	cv,pf,lf,ld,lm	no	0.021 km³	29	[5]
26 April 1966	Kelut	27 April 1966	4	cv,cl,pf,lm	no	0.089 km³	212	[27]
17 March 1963	Agung	27 January 1964	5	cv,pf,lf,lm	no	1 km³	1,148	[30]
31 August 1951	Kelut	31 August 1951	4	cv,cl,pf,lm	no	0.2 km³	7	[27]
25 November 1930	Merapi	September 1931	3	cv,rf,pf,lf,ld,lm	no	0.0017 km³	1,369	[5]
19 May 1919	Kelut	20 May 1919	4	cv,cl,pf,lm	no	0.19 km³	5,110	[27]
7 June 1892	Awu	12 June 1892	3	cv,pf,lm	yes	N/A	1,532	[31]
26 August 1883	Krakatau	February 1884	6	cv,se,pf,fa,lm,cc	15–42 m	5–8.5 km³	36,600	[1][30][32]
15 April 1872	Merapi	21 April 1872	4	cv,pf	no	0.33 km³	200	[5]
2 March 1856	Awu	17 March 1856	3	cv,pf,lm	yes	0.51±0.50 km³	2,806	[31]
8 October 1822	Galunggung	December 1822	5	cv,pf,ld,lm	no	1 km³ +	4,011	[27]
10 April 1815	Mount Tambora	15 July 1815	7	cv,pf,cc	1–2 m	160 km³	71,000+	[3][33]
6 August 1812	Awu	8 August 1812	4	cv,pf,lm	no	0.55±0.50 km³	963	[31]
12 August 1772	Papandayan	12 August 1772	3	cv,ph	no	N/A	2,957	[34]
4 August 1672	Merapi	unknown	3	cv,pf,lm	no	N/A	3,000	[5]
1586	Kelut	unknown	5	cf,cl,lm	no	1 km³ +	10,000	[27]
≈ 74,000 BP	Toba	unknown	8	pf,lf,cc	likely	2,800 km³	near extinction of human population	[2]