May 1883, and ending on 21 October 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa, located in the Sunda Strait, had repeated, months long volcanic eruptions. The...
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on the far western rim of the Pacific "Ring of Fire." Krakatoa is a notably powerful volcano, with the 1883 eruption being one of the deadliest and most...
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remnant of an island mostly destroyed by an eruption in 1883 which created the caldera. In 1927, a fourth island, Anak Krakatoa, or "Child of Krakatoa", emerged...
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events surrounding the 1883 eruption of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa, with the characters engaged in the recovery of a cargo of pearls from a shipwreck...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester covering the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Winchester examines the annihilation in...
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Volcanic tsunami (section Volcanic eruptions)
that produced by the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The waves reached heights of 40 m (130 ft) and killed 36,000 people. A wide variety of volcanic processes...
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emerged from the caldera formed in 1883 by the explosive volcanic eruption that destroyed the island of Krakatoa. There has been sporadic eruptive activity...
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is thought to have been the largest since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, with a total mass of SO 2 of about 17,000,000 t (19,000,000 short tons) being...
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230–259. doi:10.1191/0309133303pp379ra. S2CID 131663534. "Krakatoa Volcano: Facts About Deadly Eruption". Live Science. September 15, 2017. Archived from the...
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The Twenty-One Balloons (category 1883 eruption of Krakatoa)
illustrations by du Bois. The novel depicts the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The introduction compares two types of journeys: one that aims to reach a place within...
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fact until the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa tinted the skies orange. The scale of the volcanic eruption will determine the significance of the impact on climate...
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by the opening of a new fissure vent in the same location.[citation needed] Krakatoa – Indonesia, 1883 (see 1883 eruption of Krakatoa) – it is believed...
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Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic. August 26–27 – 1883 eruption of Krakatoa: The volcanic island of Krakatoa erupts at 10:02 am (local time);...
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Fair Wind to Java (category 1883 eruption of Krakatoa)
pirates, and finally an exploding volcano (based on the 1883 eruption of the island of Krakatoa). In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing...
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Rakata (category Krakatoa)
Verlaten and Lang) of the Krakatoa Archipelago. Before 1883 (and in many of the eruption reports), Rakata was just referred to as "the Peak (of Krakatau)." Rakata...
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nuclear bomb test. It is thought that in recent centuries, only the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 rivalled the atmospheric disturbance produced. After staying relatively...
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based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java, present day Indonesia...
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Torino scale (category Units of measurement in astronomy)
exploded, the Tsar Bomba, was around 50 megatons. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was the equivalent of roughly 200 megatons. The comet C/2013 A1, which passed...
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Gouverneur Generaal Loudon (ship) (category Maritime incidents in August 1883)
and excursion vessel which survived the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The ship was built by Caird & Company of Greenock, Scotland, in 1875 and operated...
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Tsar Bomba (category Cold War weapons of the Soviet Union)
energy of all the conventional explosives used in World War II, one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and 10% of the combined...
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the Millennium Eruption. The event is thought to have caused a volcanic winter. El Chichón, 1982 1883 eruption of Krakatoa 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora...
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Year Without a Summer (redirect from Yunnan Famine of 1816)
after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and on the West Coast of the United States following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The lack of oats to feed...
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Many such false fire alarms were reported worldwide after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia. While Pang may be inaccurate in saying "I conclude...
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Tsunami (redirect from Mathematics of Tsunamis)
open debate. Others include the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, and the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption. Over 20% of all fatalities caused by volcanism...
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Krakatoa, also known as Krakatau, is a volcano in Indonesia. Krakatoa may also refer to: 1883 eruption of Krakatoa Anak Krakatoa, a new island rising from...
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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami (redirect from Asian tsunami of 2004)
the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Not every earthquake produces large tsunamis: on 28 March 2005, a magnitude 8.7 earthquake hit roughly the same area of the...
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Pyroclastic flow (redirect from Pyroclastic Eruption)
evidence from the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, supported by experimental evidence, shows that pyroclastic flows can cross significant bodies of water. However...
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Megatsunami (redirect from List of megatsunamis)
displacement. Examples of modern megatsunamis include the one associated with the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (volcanic eruption), the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami...
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eruptions by human death toll. Lists of disasters List of volcanic eruption deaths List of natural disasters by death toll List of volcanic eruptions...
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1966 for the Library of Congress.[citation needed] The story describes how the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the island blew half of the large island into...
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