2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
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The 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami occurred on 22 December 2018 at around 21:38 local time after large parts of the southwestern side of Anak Krakatoa collapsed onto its caldera. The landslide spawned a ts
Damage in Carita Beach, Banten, Java after the tsunami. Photo 23 December 2018.
Damage from the Sunda strait tsunami, Sumatra, 23 December 2018
Anak Krakatau in 2013 five years before the eruption
Affected area across the Sunda Strait.
Krakatoa
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Krakatoa, also transcribed Krakatau, is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island group comp
2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
…or undersea landslide. Lying on the Ring of Fire, Indonesia experiences frequent earthquakes and is home to 127 active volcanoes. One such volcano is Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait. The volcano was famous for its historic eruption in 1883, one of the most violent eruptions in recorded history. That eruption…
A lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
In 2004, an astronomer suggested that the blood-red sky shown in Edvard Munch's famous 1893 painting The Scream depicts the sky over Norway after the eruption.
Krakatoa featured in 100-rupiah banknote
Simon Winchester maintains that the 1680 eruption was depicted in this eighteenth-century Dutch etching.