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.

In the quiet Vasse district of WA, the evening of 27 August 1883 ... Krakatoa volcano erupted with such immense force, it shattered the island and sent shockwaves racing around the globe. The ...

THE inquiry, instituted in consequence of a Government resolution of October 4, 1883, into tne nature, the extent, and the consequences of the volcanic eruptions of Krakatoa, has led to various ...

On August 26, 1883, the first of several eruptions began around 1 p.m. By 2 p.m., an ash cloud rose about 17 miles over Krakatoa. At 10 a.m. the following day — August 27 — the volcano gave way and ...

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 ...

Yet despite its infamy, the 1883 eruption was a rather modest ... by steam from boiling seawater that got inside the volcano. Put simply, the trapped gas pressure helped lower the overall strength of ...

Anak Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, experienced a cataclysmic eruption in 1883 that destroyed the island of Krakatoa and created the caldera—a large depression formed when a volcano e ...

The eruption of Anak Krakatoa that triggered a deadly tsunami on Saturday has a historic precedent in the eruption of the larger Krakatoa volcano in 1883. At least 429 have died and 1,300 have ...

History has seen some monstrous volcanic eruptions ... The rumblings of Krakatoa (also spelled Krakatau) in the weeks and months of the summer of 1883 finally climaxed with a massive explosion ...