 | Krakatoa, Indonesia 6 ° 6'7 .38 "N, 105 ° 25'21 .69" E |  |  |
In May 1883 a series of eruptions began in a small archipelago located in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra, and continued until August 27, 1883.
that day, the Krakatoa blew apart the small island of Rakata in a cataclysmic explosion with a force of 100 megatons, almost as if 5000 had dropped atomic bombs on the place, there is nothing.
In Madagascar there to who could hear the sound of the explosion, about some 6,000 miles away, distance equivalent to that which separates Spain from Afghanistan. Among the tragic consequences: tsunamis that reached 40 feet high and took the lives of 36,000 people, a column of smoke 80 miles high and ash particles floating in the air for years.
been observing since 1927, new volcanic eruptions on the seabed that has meant the emergence of a new island in the same place: Anar or Child of Krakatoa Krakatoa. The island reached the sea surface in 1928 and currently exceeds 200 meters.
Hopefully the small Krakatoa explode in the future not as violently as his father.
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