karakatau / krakatoa I

krakatau at night day

merbabu >  on 27 August 1883 at 10:20 WIB one quarter of a century ago, in 1883, a volcano erupt in the Sunda. Mount Krakatau (Krakatoa call the west) at that time that dangle on the island of Krakatau spew anger with strength equivalent to 200 megaton TNT. Know the origin, the amount of TNT is equivalent to 13,000 times Little Boy, the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan crush on in 1945. Really terrible.

Virulence Krakatau eruption can be seen also from the number of victims killed. As many as 36,417 people stretch the life of the blast, 165 settlements from the surface of the earth, lost, and 132 villages destroyed. Krakatau eruption trigger also feels that the occurrence of tsunami to the west coast of Hawaii and the United States, a distance that for many unprecedented as far. Ships that are in South Africa seems to float because of the tsunami that from this end of the island of Java.

The record made Krakatau: the sound explosion sound to the East Perth in the distance of 3110 kilometers and at the western population in Rodrigues, Mauritius near the 5000 km distance could hear the sound Krakatau eruption. This means that the population around the eighth planet earth can hear Krakatau are terrible rage.

krakatau at afternoon

After the explosion, the planet had a dark gray closed vulaknis covering the atmosphere. sunlight is not able to penetrate the thickness of dust fly. Know the origin, Krakatau up 25 cubic kilometers of stone and ash into the air.

london news

ENTRY photos that decorate this is from the Illustrated London News published on 8 September 1883 (you can buy a replica of the newspaper front page is worth 184 dollars on Amazon). Meanwhile in 1927 a mountain of birth of the former location of Mount Krakatau. He called the Son of Krakatau.