Jakarta
- Indonesia will never forget the tragedy of dark ferocity of nature,
the eruption of Krakatoa volcano on 26-27 August 1883. A total of 36 thousand people were killed and the dark nature.Mountain, located in the Sunda Strait and flanked by Java and Sumatra, has a height of 813 meters. At
126 years ago, the sound of the eruption of Krakatoa heard up to Alice
Springs, Australia and the island of Rodrigues near Africa, 4.653
kilometers and even his voice be heard by a 1/8 of the population of the
earth at that time.Krakatoa
explosion at the time, estimated at more than 30 thousand times the
atomic bomb that was detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of
World War II.History ExplosionPrior
to the explosion on August 26 to 27, the unity of the Krakatoa volcano
mountain Danan, and Rakata Perbuwatan, began to pop back since May 20,
1883. After 200 years is an explosion again, on Monday, August 27, 1883, promptly at 10:20, burst into the mountain.Krakatoa explosion had thrown stones, pumice and volcanic ash with a volume of 18 cubic kilometers. Bursts of dust vulkanisnya mencavai 80 km. Hard
objects that flew into the air it falls on the plains of Java and
Sumatra, even to Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand.The
eruption destroyed Danan Mountain, Mount Gunung Rakata Perbuwatan and
some where a half cone is missing, create a basin-wide and 7 km deep as
250 meters. Waves reached as high as 40 meters destroying villages and whatever is on the coast. The tsunami was caused not only because of the eruption, but also the underwater landslide.Recorded
the death toll reached 36 417 people from 295 coastal villages from
Merak (Attack) to cilamaya in Karachi, the Cape west coast of Banten to
display on the island of Panaitan (Ujung Kulon and southern Sumatra. In
Ujungkulon, incoming flood of up to 15 km
to the west. next day until a few days later, residents of Jakarta and
Lampung outback no longer see the sun. Tsunami waves generated even
climbing up to the coast of Hawaii, Central America and the west coast
of the Arabian Peninsula seven thousand kilometers away.Now, leaving the Anak Krakatau volcano Krakatau is sometimes issued bang-bang. Although according to some experts, Anak Krakatau eruption sedahsyat not be issued earlier.
