The Krakatoa eruption was about ten times more explosive than the Mount St. Helens explosion of 1980 with a VEI of 5.) Tephra (volcanic rock fragments) and hot volcanic gases overcame many of the ...

Mount Vesuvius is not the only slumbering supervolcano. Krakatoa, or rather, its child, is also bubbling away. Professor Richard Fiske, from America's Smithsonian Institute, and one of the authors ...

and Mount St. Helens in the U.S. (exploded in 1980). 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 ...

Mount Thera's eruption was four or five times more massive than Krakatoa and blew massive hole in Santorini, the island in the Aegean Sea that hosted the volcano. At the time, the Minoan ...

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 ...

KRAKATOA is not a foot condition ... His transition from rocks to reporting is a story well worth telling. An ardent mountain-climber, Winchester picked up a copy of Coronation Everest, journalist ...

Krakatoa showed what happens when nature breaks ... Scientists point to volcanoes like Mount Toba in Sumatra, Mount Tambora in Indonesia, and even potentially dormant supervolcanoes like ...

Put simply, the trapped gas pressure helped lower the overall strength of Krakatoa, making it susceptible to massive ... But for this to happen, the volcano must be made not from solid rock, like ...

The offspring of Indonesia's infamous Krakatoa volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, sending a huge volcanic ash tower some 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) into the sky. Mount Anak Krakatoa ...