krakatau in A Sentence

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    This Day in History: Aug 27, 1883: Krakatau explodes.

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    This is how Krakatau volcano sounded like last night, timelapse included.

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    Incidentally, the explosive 1883 eruption of Krakatau was one of the loudest in recorded history.

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    As you can see from this last image(above), Krakatau still has periods of dome-forming and Strombolian-style eruptions, with the most recent activity being about a year ago.

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    In the case of Krakatau, the acoustic emissions from this volcano's 1883 eruption were so low, but so loud that they were heard as far away as Australia!

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    On August 26 the party was over when Krakatau blew apart with unimaginable violent fury, setting off a domino effect of natural disasters that would impact the globe well into the future.

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    The initial indications that Krakatau was awakening for the first time in two centuries was an observation by a German war ship of a dust and ash cloud over the long dormant volcano.

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    And here is a second example of some of the sounds made by a volcano, this time at Krakatau, and at a much greater distance away from the volcano than in the previous example.

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    On a small, desolate island called Krakatau west of Sumatra in Indonesia, the most violent volcanic eruption in recorded history occurred, estimated to have produced an equivalent of a 200 megaton explosion, which is about 4 times that of the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba.

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    Sound waves at such frequencies have a long wave length and can travel far- think of the boom of Krakatau volcano in Indonesia, which was heard in Australia- and so aero-acoustic sensors can be placed at a further, safer distance away from a volcano than other types of monitoring equipment.

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