Halfway across the world in Indonesia on the same date, the Krakatoa volcano erupted with such immense force, it shattered the island and sent shockwaves racing around the globe. The eruption ...

Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait ...

Krakatoa's eruption left a permanent mark on the world, with long-term environmental and climatic consequences still felt today. Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela ...

Put simply, the trapped gas pressure helped lower the overall strength of Krakatoa, making it susceptible to massive internal failure. We speculate that the cause of the huge bang may have been a ...

The offspring of Indonesia’s infamous Krakatoa volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, sending a huge volcanic ash tower some 2,500 metres into the sky. Anak Krakatoa, which means Child of ...

Krakatoa is a 1933 American Pre-Code short documentary film produced by Joe Rock. The story describes how the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the island blew half of the large island into the air ...

Before August 28th, 1883, few people had ever heard of Krakatoa. It was a tiny, nondescript volcanic island in the middle of the Sunda Straits, between Java and Sumatra, in what were then the ...