Contact | RSS | EN | DE | EL | ES | FR | IT | RU

Volcanoes of Sumatra (68)

Barus | Bekulap | Belirang-Beriti | Besar | Bukit Daun | Bukit Lumut | Bukit Lumut Balai | Bukit Nanti | Bukit Telor | Bukit Tenaroh | Bukit Tiga | Dempo | Geureudong | Geureugoh | Gunung Sembuang | Gunung Telago | Gunung Tudeuk | Helatoba-Tarutung | Hulubelu | Hulunilo | Hutapanjang | Imun | Isau-Isau | Kaba | Kembar | Kerinci | Lubukraya | Maninjau | Marapi | Martimbang | Masurai | Melintang | Nama Salah | Olim | Patah | Pendan | Pesagi | Pesawaran-Ratai | Peuet Sague | Pulau Weh | Raja | Raja-Sabanda | Rajabasa | Ranau caldera | Runcing | Sarik-Gajah | Sekincau Belirang | Seulawah Agam | Seulawah Inong | Sibayak | Sibualbuali | Simbolon | Sinabung | Sorikmarapi | Sukadana Basalts | Sumbing | Suoh | Takur-Takur | Talakmau | Talang | Tandikat | Tanggamus | Telong | Teu Minas | Toba | Tujuh | Tungkat | Uruk Simacak
[smaller] [bigger]

Volcano list

Barus

(Stratovolcano 1969 m / 6460 ft)
[more info]

Bekulap

(Lava dome(s) ? 1782 m / 5846 ft)
[more info]

Belirang-Beriti

(stratovolcano )
The compound Belerang-Beriti volcano rises above the Semalako Plain in SW Sumatra, forming a NW-SE-trending massif that contains a 1.2-km-wide crater breached to the NE. [more info]

Besar

(stratovolcano 1889 m)
Gunung Besar is a 1899-m-high volcano in SE Sumatra with a minor sulfur deposit in its crater. [more info]

Bukit Daun

(stratovolcano 2467 m)
Located in a sparsely populated region of Sumatra, Bukit Daun forms a twin volcano with Gedang volcano. [more info]

Bukit Lumut

(Stratovolcano 1738 m / 5702 ft)
[more info]

Bukit Lumut Balai

(stratovolcano 2055 m)
Bukit Lumut Balai is a heavily eroded volcano consisting of three eruption centers, two on Bukit Lumut and one on the NE side of Bukit Balai, 5 km to the east. Large lava flows occur on the north side of Bukit Balai. [more info]

Bukit Nanti

(Unknown 1619 m / 5312 ft)
[more info]

Bukit Telor

(Pyroclastic cone 38 m / 125 ft)
[more info]

Bukit Tenaroh

(Unknown unknown)
[more info]

Bukit Tiga

(Stratovolcano 1629 m / 5344 ft)
[more info]

Dempo

(Stratovolcano 3173 m (10,410 ft))
Dempo is a prominent 3173-m-high stratovolcano that rises above the Pasumah Plain of SE Sumatra. [more info]

Geureudong

(Stratovolcano 2885 m (9,465 ft))
The massive Bur ni Geureudong volcanic complex, one of the largest in northern Sumatra, consists of the two adjacent volcanoes of Bur ni Geureudong and Bur ni Telong. [more info]

Geureugoh

(Fissure vent(s) unknown)
[more info]

Gunung Sembuang

(Explosion crater unknown)
[more info]

Gunung Telago

(Unknown 1930 m / 6332 ft)
[more info]

Gunung Tudeuk

(Lava dome unknown)
[more info]

Helatoba-Tarutung

(fumarolic field 1100 m)
Helatoba-Tarutung, located in northern Sumatra south of Lake Toba, is a group of sulfurous hot springs along a 40-km-long, NNW-SSE-trending stretch of the Renun-Toru fault zone. [more info]

Hulubelu

(stratovolcano 775 m)
Hulubelu is an elliptical, 4-km-long caldera or volcano-tectonic depression in SE Sumatra. [more info]

Hulunilo

(Stratovolcano 2469 m / 8100 ft)
[more info]

Hutapanjang

(stratovolcano, caldera 2021 m)
Huatapanjang stratovolcano, located to the NW of Sumbing volcano, is classified as active by Rock et al. (1982) and Posavec et al. (1973), with no additional information. Little is known of this central Sumatran volcano. It is not sure if the 2009 6.8 R earthquake was connected t... [more info]

Imun

(lava dome 1505 m)
Imun is a single small dacitic and/or rhyolitic cone south of Lake Toba with a youthful, undissected morphology, and is considered to be of late-Pleistocene or Holocene age (Aldiss et al., 1983). Source: Smithsonian GVP [more info]

Isau-Isau

(Unknown 1422 m / 4665 ft)
[more info]

Kaba

(Stratovolcano 1952 m (6,404 ft))
Kaba, a twin volcano with Mount Hitam, has an elongated summit crater complex dominated by three large historically active craters trending ENE from the summit to the upper NE flank. [more info]

Kembar

(stratovolcano 2245 m)
The Gayolesten fumarole field is located on the flanks of the Pleistocene Gunung Kembar volcano. [more info]

Kerinci

(Stratovolcano 3800 m / 12,467 ft)
The 3800-m-high Gunung Kerinci in central Sumatra is Indonesia's highest volcano and one of the most active in Sumatra. [more info]

Lubukraya

(stratovolcano, lava dome 1862 m)
Lubukraya is a well-defined andesitic stratovolcano of latest Pleistocene to possibly Holocene age with a broad crater breached to the south and a prominent lava dome at the southern foot of the volcano (Aspden et al. 1982). [more info]

Maninjau

(Caldera 1724 m / 5656 ft)
[more info]

Marapi

(Stratovolcano 2891 m (9,485 ft))
Gunung Marapi (not to be confused with the better-known Merapi volcano on Java) is Sumatra's most active volcano. [more info]

Martimbang

(Stratovolcano 1669 m / 5476 ft)
[more info]

Masurai

(Stratovolcano 2916 m / 9567 ft)
[more info]

Melintang

(Stratovolcano 2262 m / 7421 ft)
[more info]

Nama Salah

(Unknown unknown)
[more info]

Olim

(Fissure vent(s) unknown)
[more info]

Patah

(stratovolcano )
Patah is a heavily forested, dissected Quaternary volcano SE of Dempo volcano. [more info]

Pendan

(stratovolcano 1631 m)
Pendan is a little-known volcano in central Sumatra that is listed as an active volcanic center by Rock et al. (1982) and Posavec et al. (1973), with no additional information. Source: Smithsonian GVP [more info]

Pesagi

(Unknown 2232 m / 7323 ft)
[more info]

Pesawaran-Ratai

(Stratovolcano 1575 m / 5167 ft)
[more info]

Peuet Sague

(Complex volcano 2801 m / 9,190 ft)
Peuet Sague is a large volcanic complex that rises to 2801 m in NW Sumatra. [more info]

Pulau Weh

(Stratovolcano 617 m / 2,024 ft)
[more info]

Raja

(Unknown 1643 m / 5390 ft)
[more info]

Raja-Sabanda

(Unknown 2527 m / 8291 ft)
[more info]

Rajabasa

(stratovolcano 1240 m)
Rajabasa is a prominent, isolated volcano along the Sunda Strait at the SE-most tip of Sumatra. [more info]

Ranau caldera

(stratovolcano, caldera 1880 m)
Ranau is an 8 x 13 km caldera volcano in southern Sumatra partially filled by the crescent-shaped Lake Ranau. Gunung Semuning is a potentially still active stratovolcano constructed at the SE side of the caldera. [more info]

Runcing

(Unknown 1789 m / 5869 ft)
[more info]

Sarik-Gajah

(Pyroclastic cones )
The Sarik volcanic andesitic/basaltic center consists of two young cones with vegetated, but uneroded surfaces. [more info]

Sekincau Belirang

(stratovolcano )
Sekincau volcano was constructed near the southern rim of the small NW-SE-trending double Belirang and Balak calderas, 2 and 2.5 km wide, respectively. [more info]

Seulawah Agam

(Stratovolcano 1810 m / 5,938 ft)
Seulawah Agam is an active stratovolcano at the northwestern tip of Sumatra. It was built within the older lam Teuba caldera. It has a 400 m wide forested summit crater and a crater at 650 m on the NNE flank, the Van Heutsz crater, which has active fumaroles. The last activity of... [more info]

Seulawah Inong

(Unknown 730 m / 2395 ft)
[more info]

Sibayak

(stratovolcano 2212 m)
Sibayak volcano belongs to the Singkut caldera in northern Sumatra. It represents one of several cones that grew on or near the southern caldera rim after its formation. [more info]

Sibualbuali

(stratovolcano 1819 m)
Sibualbuali is an eroded Pleistocene stratovolcano with two solfatara fields on the eastern flank. [more info]

Simbolon

(Stratovolcano 1509 m / 4951 ft)
[more info]

Sinabung

(Stratovolcano 2460 m (8,071 ft))
Sinabung volcano in July 2015
Sinabung volcano in July 2015
Sinabung is a typical stratovolcano in northern Sumatra next to the town of Berastagi. [more info]

Sorikmarapi

(Stratovolcano 2145 m (7,037 ft))
Sorikmarapi is a forested stratovolcano with a 600-m-wide summit crater containing a crater lake and substantial sulfur deposits. [more info]

Sukadana Basalts

(Fissure vent 300 m / 984 ft)
[more info]

Sumbing

(Stratovolcano 2507 m (8,225 ft))
Smaller than its prominent namesake on Java, Sumatra's Sumbing volcano has a complicated summit region containing several crater remnants and a 180-m-long crater lake. [more info]

Suoh

(Maar 1000 m (3,281 ft))
The 8 x 16 km Suoh depression appears to be primarily of tectonic origin, but contains historically active maars and silicic lava domes along its margins. [more info]

Takur-Takur

(Unknown 1499 m / 4918 ft)
[more info]

Talakmau

(stratovolcano 2919 m)
Talakmau (also known as Talamau) is a massive compound volcano rising above the western coastal plain of Sumatra. [more info]

Talang

(Stratovolcano 2597 m / 8,520 ft)
Talang, which forms a twin volcano with the extinct Pasar Arbaa volcano, has two crater lakes on its flanks. [more info]

Tandikat

(Stratovolcano 2438 m (7,999 ft))
Tandikat and its twin volcano to the NNE, Singgalang, lie across the Bukittinggi plain from Marapi volcano. [more info]

Tanggamus

(Stratovolcano 2079 m / 6821 ft)
[more info]

Telong

(stratovolcano 2617 m / 8,586 ft)
Telong (or Bur ni Telong) volcano is a conical stratovolcano built at the southern base of the massive Bur ni Geureudong volcanic complex, one of the largest in northern Sumatra. The historically active volcano lies 4.5 km from the summit of Geureudong, and its summit crater has ... [more info]

Teu Minas

(Stratovolcano unknown)
[more info]

Toba

(Caldera 2157 m (7,077 ft))
Toba volcano has produced the largest known volcanic eruption on earth during the past 2 million years. [more info]

Tujuh

(Stratovolcano 2732 m / 8963 ft)
[more info]

Tungkat

(Unknown 1576 m / 5171 ft)
[more info]

Uruk Simacak

(Stratovolcano 1908 m / 6260 ft)
[more info]

Volcanism in Sumatra

Sumatra's volcananism is caused by the northeastward subduction of the oceanic Indian-Australian plate at speeds of up to 70 mm/year under the continental Sunda plate (part of the Eurasian plate).
The region is tectonically among the most active on earth, as the great 9.0 (or perhaps even 9.3) magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004, has sadly illustrated.
The most active volcanoes of Sumatra are Marapi and Karinci, followed by Talang and Kawa volcanoes.


Simplified tectonic map of the Indian Ocean and Sumatra, movements of tectonic plates, the Sunda Trench, location of the great 2004 earthquake, and volcanoes in Sumatra. (USGS)
Simplified tectonic map of the Indian Ocean and Sumatra, movements of tectonic plates, the Sunda Trench, location of the great 2004 earthquake, and volcanoes in Sumatra. (USGS)

Latest news:

  • Sumatra volcano news page

Volcanoes of Sumatra (Indonesia)

Major active volcanoes of Sumatra. (Basemap created using UNAVCO map tool featuring Face of the Earth).
Major active volcanoes of Sumatra.