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THE ERUPTION OF KRAKATAU
The effects of the eruption were also noted all around the world.
The final explosion of Krakatau produced the loudest sound ever recorded in
modern history, heard on over 10% of Earth's area. Reports of a distant cannonade or what
seemed to be gunfire were reported from Australia and the island of Mauritius, more than
4,650 km distant from the erupting volcano. The pressure waves travelled within a few
hours several times around the globe. Instruments measured the sudden peaks in Britain
as in America.
Krakatau was the first scientifically well recorded and studied eruption of a volcano, from the very beginning to its
disastrous ending.
Unfortunately, nobody realized the real danger of Krakatau. As the island was uninhabitable it was believed that it
would pose no threat to human lives. Between August 26 and 27 a series of explosions almost totally destroyed the volcano,
causing a series of tsunami-waves that killed 36,000 people along the coasts of Java and Sumatra.
The story of Krakatau is still not over. In 1930, in the caldera formed by the explosion and
collapse of the old volcano a new one, Anak Krakatoa, the child of Krakatau, started to grow. The
child has grown fast, displaying a continuous activity since its first eruption it rises by 16 feet per
year and most probably will keep growing.
2. Long and high sea waves chased by an earthquake or other disaster - _____________.
3. A line dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres - _______________.