KRAKATAOA

1883 eruptionA lithograph made in 1888 that describes the eruption of Mount Krakatau in the event of 1883.On the day Monday, August 27, 1883, promptly at 10:20, the mountain explodes. According to Simon Winchester, a geologist at Oxford University English graduate who is also the author of National Geographic said that the blast was the biggest, loudest voice and the most devastating volcanic event in modern human history. The voice sounded eruptions until 4600 km from the center of the eruption and can even be heard by the eighth inhabitants of the earth at that time.According to researchers at the University of North Dakota, with the explosion of Krakatoa explosion of Tambora (1815) listed the value of the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), the largest in modern history. The Guinness Book of Records recorded the explosion of Anak Krakatau as the most powerful explosion in recorded history.Krakatoa explosion had thrown stones pumice and volcanic ash by volume of 18 cubic miles. Shot of dust vulkanisnya mencavai 80 km. Hard objects which flew into the air, falling on the plains of Java and Sumatra islands even up to Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand.The eruption destroyed Danan Mountain, Mount Perbuwatan and part of Mount Rakata where a half cone is missing, create a basin-wide 7 km and as deep as 250 meters. Sea waves rose as high as 40 meters to destroy the villages and what was on the coast. The tsunami was caused not only because of the eruption but also submarine landslide.Noted the number of the dead reached 36,417 people from 295 villages in coastal areas ranging from Peacock (Attack) until cilamaya in Karawang, West coast of Banten to display on the island of Cape Panaitan (Ujung Kulon and southern parts of Sumatra. In Ujungkulon, incoming flood to 15 km to the west. The next day, until a few days later, residents of Jakarta and Lampung hinterland no longer see the sun. Tsunami waves generated even creeping up to the Hawaiian coast, west coast of Central America and the Arabian Peninsula that 7 thousand miles away.
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