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Today in History... the island volcano Krakatoa blew up... | |
| more doom then User ID: 289224  United States08/27/2007 08:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No internet, but a much worse day... On Aug. 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa blew up; the resulting tidal waves in Indonesia's Sunda Strait claimed some 36,000 lives in Java and Sumatra. If that happened today... millions would have been killed. Move along... doom canceled.  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 289224 United States08/27/2007 08:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The 1883 eruption ejected more than 25 cubic kilometres of rock, ash, and pumice [1], and generated the loudest sound historically reported: the cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia approx. 1,930 miles (3,110 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius approx. 3,000 miles (5,000 km). Near Krakatoa, according to official records, 165 villages and towns were destroyed and 132 seriously damaged, at least 36,417 (official toll) people died, and many thousands were injured by the eruption, mostly from the tsunamis which followed the explosion. |
