The Anak (“Child”) Krakatoa volcano erupts, as seen from a ship on the Sunda Straits. At least 426 people died in Indonesia after a chunk of the volcano slid into the ocean, causing a tsunami ...

News; World news; Volcanoes 'Child of Krakatoa' volcano triggers tsunami alert after continuous eruptions for weeks Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has issued ...

KRAKATOA volcano in Indonesia has exploded, shooting an ash column some 13km high into the air in the shocking eruption. When was Krakatoa's last eruption? Is it still erupting now?

Krakatau was also the first scientifically well recorded and studied eruption of a volcano, from the very beginning to its disastrous ending. In May of 1883, the first clouds of vapor were noted ...

On Dec. 22 at 9:03 p.m. local time, a 64-hectare (158-acre) chunk of Anak Krakatau volcano, in Indonesia, slid into the ocean following an eruption. This landslide created a tsunami that struck ...

Krakatoa, west of Java, erupted with such fury in 1883 that it reportedly was heard as far away as Bangkok and Australia. It blew the island of Rakata to pieces and killed more than 30,000 people.

What spawned from the ash and debris was a new volcano, given the name Anak Krakatau, or “child of Krakatoa.” It literally rose up out of the ocean in 1927 and has been erupting continuously ...

The August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was one of the deadliest volcanic explosions in modern history. The volcano, found in the middle of the Sunda Strait in between two of Indonesia’s largest ...

Krakatoa, located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, is infamous for its catastrophic eruption in 1883. It's one of the world's active volcanoes that visitors can actually hike up to .

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. An… ...

From Krakatoa to the recent Tonga blast, ... The volcano, which is still active, is one of the tallest peaks in the Indonesian archipelago. The eruption reached its peak in April 1815, ...