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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.
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 ...
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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.
Crews were battling a large fire at a manufacturing business in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday, local officials said.. Multiple photos of a large, black plume of smoke were circulating online ...
Winchester examines the annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France, and the sound of the island's destruction—per Winchester—could be heard as far away as Australia and India.
Images taken before this week's fire show streets filled in and bordered by green vegetation. One set of before-and-after images shows the lush area home to a huge banyan tree at the heart of the ...
Since 1976 the HTC has leveraged over $78 billion to restore more than 41,270 buildings across the US. 6 dramatic before-and-after renovation photos of decaying buildings Skip to main content