The eruption of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 was the biggest volcanic explosion ... 20 times as much as by the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State. So much landed in the Sunda ...

A new book was needed, Winchester thought, one that explained not only what happened in 1883 but why. Readers who pick up Krakatoa expecting ... the first men to scale Mount Everest.

The eruption of Krakatoa, or Krakatau, in August 1883 was one of the most deadly volcanic ... was about ten times more explosive than the Mount St. Helens explosion of 1980 with a VEI of 5.) ...

It was 6am on August 26 in 1883, when the volcano ... would you abandon it?" Mount Vesuvius is not the only slumbering supervolcano. Krakatoa, or rather, its child, is also bubbling away.

The eruption of the Krakatau (or Krakatoa) on a small island located in the middle of the Sunda Strait (at the time part of the Netherlands East Indies) in August 1883 was, in many aspects ...

Yet despite its infamy, the 1883 eruption was a rather modest affair in terms of ... Put simply, the trapped gas pressure helped lower the overall strength of Krakatoa, making it susceptible to ...

The story of the 1883 Vasse "gunfire" reminds us that WA, despite its geographic isolation, remains connected to the wider world. Krakatoa's eruption was a stark demonstration of how nature ...

From the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which forged a nearly four-mile caldera and altered global temperatures, to the thunderous explosion of Krakatoa in 1883, these titanic forces ...

This week in 1883, Krakatoa, a volcano on an uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, violently erupted. Volcanic dust spewed into the atmosphere. Huge tsunami waves swept across the region.

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 ...

Ever since the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano in 1883, people have claimed that it could have been heard all over Asia and Australia. As such, could it have been heard in what is now the city ...