The effects of the eruption were also noted ... Geologists would later use those articles to compile a detailed report of the eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena. Krakatau was also ...

What happens when a volcano explodes with the force of 200 megatons? The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was so powerful that it wiped out entire communities, created massive tsunamis, and altered Earth ...

But the effects of that debris have been much longer-lived. According to the report in Nature* this week, the volcanic-induced cooling of the oceans caused by Krakatoa's eruption lasted almost a ...

WHEN the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa erupted in 1883, sending 25 cubic kilometres of rock and ash into the air, it did more than generate the loudest sound ever recorded. It also cooled the world ...

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 ...

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

"The last [volcanic eruption] that could have reached this height was Krakatoa in 1883," said Proud ... the eruption could trigger a similar effect (which was, in the case of Pinatubo, observable ...