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On the morning of 13 March 1888, a section of Ritter Island, a small volcanic island off the coast of New Guinea, collapsed into the sea in a sector collapse. Prior to its collapse, Ritter Island was a steeply-sloping, 780 m (2,560 ft) volcanic cone which produced eruptions in the 1690s and 1790s. The collapse in 1888 reduced its height to about 140 m (460 ft), while the remaining edifice, estimated by volcanologists to be 2.4 km3 (0.58 cu mi) or 4.2 km3 (1.0 cu mi), was deposited onto the seafloor. If the latter figure is correct, this sector collapse would be more voluminous than the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. The present-day Ritter Island is a crescent-shaped remnant of the former cone and it last erupted in 1972.
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