One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the biggest bang the inhabited world has ever known occurred. Indonesia's Krakatoa volcano erupted. It did so with the force of 13,000 Hiroshima atom bombs, propelled a trillion cubic feet of rock, pumice and ash into the air, and made a noise loud enough to be heard 1,930 miles away in Perth. The explosions, fallout and resulting tidal wave (130 feet high in places) killed 36,417 people in Java and Sumatra, destroyed 165 villages and towns, and two-thirds of the island. Wind streams blew the fine ash as far away as New York; sea levels were raised in the English Channel, and over the following year, global temperatures were reduced by 1.2C.

Read more about of the Legacy of Krakatoa by Roger Maynard from The Independent.
Image Credit: Steve O'Meara, Volcano Watch International

ANTARA News reported that Visitors have been banned from hiking on Mt Anak Krakatau (GAK) in the Sunda Strait because the volcano is spewing red-hot and hazardous materials. At present the eruption is in the southern part of Mt Anak Krakatau prompting the Volcanological and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center to declare the volcano and its surroundings in a level-2 alert status. Click here for more from ANTARA News.

Image Credit: Robert Decker

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VOLCANO OF THE MONTH



Krakatau, Indonesia

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