What happens when a volcano explodes with the force of 200 megatons? The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was so powerful that it wiped out entire communities, created massive tsunamis, and altered Earth’s ...

August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

It is one of the most active and powerful volcanic systems on Earth, responsible for some of the largest eruptions in history ...

THE eruption of Krakatau, from May 20 to the end of August 1883, which killed the vegetation of the three islands of the Krakatau group and destroyed some two thirds of the island of Krakatau ...

Anak Krakatau, which means Child of Kratakau, is the offspring of the infamous Krakatau volcano whose monumental eruption in 1883 triggered a period of global cooling.

Yet recently the frequency of smaller eruptions venting steam ... For comparison, when the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) volcano, also in Indonesia, erupted in 1883, it created a sonic boom that could ...

In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa erupted, killing 36,000 people and unleashing a series of terrifying tsunamis. This docu-drama uses eye witness accounts to tell the true story of one of ...

Krakatoa's violent 1883 eruption and Anak Krakatau's frequent ... massive tsunamis that killed more than 36,000 people. The volcano’s active child, Anak Krakatau, continues to pose a significant ...

A tsunami in Indonesia after the eruption of the Anak Krakatau Volcano killed at keast 222 people, while hundrerds more were reported either injured or missing, local authorities explained Sunday.

The alert level for Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano has been raised to the second-highest level possible, after a series of eruptions, while all flights around the volcano have been rerouted and ...