Overall Orange Volcanic eruption for Krakatau
in Indonesia

Event summary

ORANGE alert: The Krakatau Volcanic eruption may have a medium humanitarian impact, based on the magnitude of the eruption, the exposed population and its coping capacity..

GDACS ID VO 1000148
Name: Krakatau ()
Glide number: VO-2026-000171-IDN
Lat/Lon: -6.1 , 105.42
Event Date: 04 Sep 2026 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 2000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: No people affected
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 6
Population Exposure Index PEI:
Inserted at: 05 Sep 2026 15:28 UTC

GDACS Score

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Volcano Krakatau - EC/ECHO daily mapMon, 07 Sep 2026 18:38

A new EC/ECHO daily map is now available
Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

The Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report provides information about global volcanism on a weekly basis. Latest Krakatau report has been published on 27 Aug 2026 09:30. See the detail here

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (31), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), (1),