Before August 28th, 1883, few people had ever heard of Krakatoa. It was a tiny, nondescript volcanic island in the middle of the Sunda Straits, between Java and Sumatra, in what were then the ...

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.

By 1883, weather stations in scores of cities across the world were using barometers to track changes in atmospheric pressure. Six hours and 47 minutes after the Krakatoa explosion ... an effect that ...

Twilight is the time, at the end of a day, between the sun setting below the local horizon and before ... of Krakatoa") in Indonesia. Anak Krakatoa emerged from the caldera formed in 1883 by ...

The last widely devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean was that spawned by the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, which killed ... as close as it was off Sumatra. Before installing a warning system ...

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan civilization born on the island of Crete spread throughout the Mediterranean before ... devastating Krakatoa volcanic eruption of 1883, the volcano ...

the most famous of which is Krakatoa, whose explosion in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic in history. Hindu-Buddhist and Muslim kingdoms existed before the arrival of the Dutch, who colonized ...

More than 140,000 people had fled their homes in recent months before Mount Agung began ... during the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883, which killed 40,000 people.

From that piece: It’s June 20th, 1883: Krakatoa has recently erupted ... Phillies career HR leader would change hands eight ...

For example, 141 years ago, the massive, deadly eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa in August 1883 reportedly made ... for hunters to store up meat before winter. The Hunter's Moon also ...