Krakatau 1883 ( Eng )

It was 10:20 in local time, 1883. A volcano erupting in the Sunda Strait. Mount Krakatau (Krakatoa) who was dangling on the island of Krakatoa spewed anger with strength equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT. The amount of TNT is equivalent to 13.000 times the atomic bomb, who crushed the Hiroshima in Japan in 1945. Really devastating.

Krakatoa explosion can be seen also from the number of deaths. A total of 36.417 people dying because this, 165 settlements disappear from the earth's surface, and 132 villages is devastated, ravaged. Krakatau eruption also triggered a tsunami that was to Hawaii and the west coast of America, a distance that many people have never imagined before because so away. Ship which was in South Africa is said to crashing because of a tsunami originating from the tip of the island of Java.

There is another record of Krakatoa: the sound of the explosion was heard even in the east of Perth which is 3.110 kilometers and on the west side of the population in Rodrigues, Mauritius is located close to 5.000 kilometers could hear. This means about one-eighth the population of planet Earth could hear the Krakatoa was devastating rampage.

After the explosion, the planet was covered with black ash that covered vulaknis atmosphere. The sun could not penetrate the thick dust flying. Krakatoa spewed 25 cubic miles of rock and ash into the air.

Photographs that adorn this page is from the Illustrated London News published on 8 September 1883 (you can buy replicas of the front page of the paper was worth 184 dollars on Amazon). Meanwhile in 1927 a mountain, was born from the former location of Mount Krakatoa. He called Anak Krakatau.