The story of Krakatau is still not over. In 1930, in the caldera formed by the explosion and collapse of the old volcano a new one, Anak Krakatoa, the child of Krakatau, started to grow.

In 1927, some Javanese fishermen were startled as a column of steam and debris began spewing from the collapsed caldera. Krakatoa had awakened after 44 years of calm. Within weeks, the rim of a ...

From the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which forged a nearly four-mile caldera and altered global temperatures, to the thunderous explosion of Krakatoa in 1883, these titanic forces ...

or Krakatoa's child, a post-collapse cone which has emerged from within the caldera of the original volcano over the past half-century and now stands about 600ft above sea level. This Wednesday ...

10. THERE’S A NEW VOLCANO THERE TODAY. In December 1927, fishermen discovered that a new volcano had emerged from the caldera of the former Krakatoa. It was named Anak Krakatau (Child of ...

A new mound of ash and lava has been steadily growing in the caldera left behind by the enormous ... Lava streams down from Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa) volcano during an eruption as seen ...

Put simply, the trapped gas pressure helped lower the overall strength of Krakatoa, making it susceptible to massive internal failure. We speculate that the cause of the huge bang may have been a ...

The rumblings of Krakatoa (also spelled Krakatau ... the Anak Krakatau ("Child of Krakatau") cone in the center of the caldera produced by the 1883 eruption. Anak Krakatau sporadically comes ...

Krakatoa's eruption left a permanent mark on the world, with long-term environmental and climatic consequences still felt today. China fires warning at US treaty ally US set to kill off tech that ...

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 ...