Indonesia sits in the Pacific ‘ring of fire’, and has over 120 active volcanoes. Earlier this year, Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano erupted, spewing ash as high as two miles into the air ...

What had been a 340m-tall volcano was reduced in height to less than 150m Anak Krakatau, the Indonesian island volcano that collapsed last December triggering a huge tsunami, did produce clear ...

A tsunami in Indonesia after the eruption of the Anak Krakatau Volcano killed at keast 222 people, while hundrerds more were reported either injured or missing, local authorities explained Sunday.

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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.

Scientists have produced a new model to illustrate the December collapse of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano and its subsequent tsunami. The results indicate that 0.2-0.4 cu km of material on the ...

(Credit: Dr Mike Cassidy) (CN) — Knowing the history of tragedies like Pompeii, Krakatoa or Mount St. Helens, volcanic eruptions, of all the natural disasters, might seem to be the most inescapable.

So what could possibly create such an earth-shatteringly loud bang? A volcano on Krakatoa had just erupted with a force so great that it tore the island apart, emitting a plume of smoke that reached ...

The force of this eruption on the small, uninhabited island of Krakatau was so great that much of the volcano, and two-thirds of the island itself, collapsed into the sea, triggering 120-foot ...

Eurasian Soil Science, Vol. 54, Issue. 11, p. 1629. On 27 August 1883, the island of Krakatau was destroyed in one of the most violent volcanic events ever recorded. This caused the 'year without a ...