Krakatoa is a volcano is still active and located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. This volcano has erupted on August 26, 1883. Very powerful eruptions and resulting tsunami killed about 36,000 people. Until December 26, 2004, this is the terdahsyat tsunami. Krakatau eruption voice to be heard in Alice Springs, Australia and the island of Rodrigues near Africa, 4653 miles. Yield is estimated at 30,000 times the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
But the explosion that occurred around 416 AD It was destroyed three-quarters of the body mounts and leaves three big islands, namely Sertung Island, Rakata Island, and Long Island, as well as a third caldera in the center of the island. before 1883 came the two mountain chains and mountain named Mount Danan lam deeds which then gradually united with rakata Island and commonly referred to as Mount Krakatoa alone.
In 1880, the so-called period of strombolian, volcanic activity lasted for several months, and Mount Deeds active lava issued. After that period, there is no volcanic activity until eventually emerge will mark the eruption in May 1883.
Then on August 27, 1883 Mount Krakatoa erupted. According to historical records, which until now has always promoted the ranks of Lampung tourism, Mount Krakatoa erupted very powerful, earth-shattering. bursts of lava and ash reached an altitude of 80 km. While the ash around the earth for several years. emergency visits North America and Europe, as it appears in blue in the sun and the moon appears orange (orange).
This eruption produced great dust that can penetrate up to 90 km distance. The eruption also impacted the ocean waves up to 40 m vertically and has killed around 36,000 people in 165 villages in both South Lampung or the west of West Java. And because it has eliminated the eruption of Mount Danan and deeds from the earth and leaving the three islands of Long Island, Sertung Island, and a large and sebuahkaldera Rakata Island located in the middle third of the island with a diameter of 7 km.
Forty years later the birth of new wonders. Around 1927 fishermen who go to sea in the middle of the Sunda Strait suddenly surprised. Black smoke at sea level immediately poking among three islands, namely in the former caldera eruption was so terrible before. Then on the 29th december 1929 a crater wall appears to the sea surface as well as the source of the eruption. Only two years after the mystery cloud of smoke in the sea, and then came the strange object. "Faces" that monstrosity original increasingly apparent and it turns out that the latter is called Mount Anak Krakatau.
But the mystery of Mount Anak Krakatau not stop there. This mountain is unique, because it is always adding mountain altitude of about one inch per day. Mount Anak Krakatau that originally only a few meters away, now can reach 230 meters above sea level, and since the advent in 1927. This mountain has erupted recorded about 16 times since December 1927 until August 1930 and 43 times since 1931 to 1960 and 13 times since 1961-the year 2000.
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