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In the years before the 1883 eruption, seismic activity around the Krakatoa volcano was intense, with earthquakes felt as far away as North Australia, one of which, in 1880, damaged a lighthouse. [4] Strombolian activity began on 20 May 1883, and steam venting began to occur regularly from Perboewatan , the northernmost of the island's three cones.
Multiple wildfires are causing devastation in the greater Los Angeles area, destroying homes, businesses and landscapes. Before-and-after images offer a glimpse of how the blazes have affected the ...
The 2009 episode "Krakatoa" of History's geology-based documentary series How the Earth Was Made also chronicles the geologic history of Krakatoa. [14] In a 1991 episode of the TV show Seinfeld, Jerry (in 1985) is tricked by Kramer into donating money to the Krakatoa relief fund, even though it erupted 102 years earlier.
Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society, G. J. Symons (editor) Permission (Reusing this file) This is a media file that Houghton Library believes to be in the public domain of the United States. This applies to a work published before January 1, 1923, or the unpublished work of an author who died more than 70 years ago.
These stories, aided by photos or other artifacts, are so powerful partly because they are very real to us. #6 Lovely Remake Of Family Image credits: Vestiges of History
The Images of Change project provides side-by-side photos of the same place over time to document the environment changes caused by nature and man. NASA's before and after images show Earth's ...
A large part of the 1947 children's novel The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois takes place on Krakatoa, just before and then during the 1883 eruption. In Pene du Bois's tale, 25 families have established a fanciful colony drawing vast wealth from fictional diamond mines on the island until the eruption scatters the inhabitants and ...
Before and after pictures reflect the true scale of the devastation. The Grand Mosque in Malatya, Turkey is among the buildings damaged. Before (top) and after (bottom) satellite images show ...