Krakatoa. It’s a name you’ve probably heard before. It’s a volcano. And when it blew in 1883, it sent shockwaves around the globe. Now, it’s erupting again. It’s not the beast it once was. But it is ...

NASA has shared an amazing aerial photo of the erupting Krakatoa volcano off the coast of Indonesia. A menacing white cloud can be seen spewing from the violent volcano in snaps taken by one of the ...

The August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was one of the deadliest volcanic explosions in modern history. The volcano, found in the middle of the Sunda Strait in between two of Indonesia’s largest islands, ...

The volcano that apparently triggered a deadly tsunami in Indonesia yesterday emerged from the sea around the legendary Krakatoa 90 years ago and has been on a high-level eruption watchlist for the ...

Krakatoa — the volcano that famously and catastrophically erupted in 1883 — is at it again, erupting Friday night spewing ash and hellfire into the air while social media users begged it not to pile ...

A volcano which has continuously erupted for the past month has triggered a tsunami warning, putting an Indonesian province on high alert. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency ...

The eruption of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 was the biggest volcanic explosion of modern times and had a force roughly equivalent to 11,000 atomic bombs. It made the loudest noise ever heard in ...

On this day in weather history, Krakatoa reached its peak. This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events ...

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Here’s an anniversary to make your ears ache. On Aug. 27, 1883, just after 10 a.m., the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia made the loudest sound known to history — a terrifying roar that ...

Yet despite its infamy, the 1883 eruption was a rather modest affair in terms of the amount of magma that erupted, currently estimated to be about 12 cubic kilometres. In comparison, Tambora, another ...