Krakatau
Americannoun
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Volcanic eruptions have triggered past tsunamis in Indonesia, including an 1871 eruption at Mount Ruang and the 2018 eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
Anak Krakatau, or the child of Krakatau, emerged from Krakatau volcano, which famously erupted in 1883 and killed more than 36,000 people in a series of tsunamis.
From Reuters ● Jun. 9, 2023
Boslough believes shock wave tsunamis may have been triggered by even stronger eruptive explosions, such as the 1883 outburst at Indonesia’s Krakatau volcano, or the most explosive phases of Yellowstone’s megaeruption 2.1 million years ago.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 25, 2022
Some volcanologists drew comparisons to the catastrophic explosion of Krakatau in Indonesia in 1883 and to the most recent huge eruption, of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, in 1991.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
In the island of Krakatau nature has supplied a crucial experiment which, if it had occurred earlier, would have at once secured conviction of their efficiency.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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