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The basin was 100 m (330 ft) deep before the eruption, and 200–300 m (660–980 ft) after. [23] Two nearby sandbanks (called Steers and Calmeyer after the two naval officers who investigated them) were built up into islands by ashfall, but the sea later washed them away. Seawater on hot volcanic deposits on Steers and Calmeyer had caused ...
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 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.
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 ...
William Ascroft (1832–1914) was a late 19th-century British landscape painter best known for his colour sketches commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts of sunsets over Chelsea in England in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of colour photography.
Before-and-after images offer a glimpse of how the blazes have affected the city. Officials say the Palisades Fire, the largest in the area, has burned more than 5,000 structures, including many ...
Haunting before-and-after images of buildings, including a senior center, places of worship, and businesses, razed to the ground show the extent of the devastation caused by the wildfires in Los ...
Perboewatan (also spelled Perbuatan or Perbuwatan; apparently a Malay word of uncertain derivation) was one of the three main volcanic cones (the others being Danan and Rakata) on the island of Krakatoa (or Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, in Indonesia. It was the lowest (121 m) and northernmost of the cones.