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Krakatoa
Loudest sound ever heard in modern history, could be heard 2,000-3,000 miles away
Exploded August 26-27,1883
Volcanic Island- located between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
Killed aproxamately 40,000 people in 1883
Composite volcano- steep profile peroidic explosions thick-sticky lava
Equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT
13,000 times the nuclear yeild of Little Boy Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan during WW2
Triggered a huge tsunami
Anak Krakatoa
Child of Krakatoa
Growing 5" a year since 1950s
Indonesia has over 130 active volcanos
pyroclastic flow-ernomous volumes of extremely got gases, ash, and rock rushes down side of the colcano
Krakatoa's lava was was thick , trap gas and was vicous
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