In 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa erupted, killing 36,000 people and unleashing a series of terrifying tsunamis. This docu-drama uses eye witness accounts to tell the true story of one of ...

“SIXTEEN volcanoes now working between the spot where Krakatoa was before and Sebesie.” Such was one of the first reports which was sent by cable to Singapore, and which we heard at Pontiana ...

August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete ...

by the fusion of the two volcanoes Perbuatan and Danan, the historic island of Bakata or Krakatau, 9 km. long and 5 km. broad, was formed, two thirds of which were erupted and dispersed in 1883.

Most volcanoes do occur at plate boundaries ... the deadliest eruption in recent history was Krakatoa in 1883. The major cause of destruction was not lava or pyroclastic flows, but the ...