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posted by takyon on Sunday December 23 2018, @11:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-mega dept.

The BBC reports that at least 62 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast of Indonesia's Sunda Strait after an eruption of the volcano Krakatoa:

The country's disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged by Saturday's tsunami.

It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted.

The strait, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean.

[...] Emergency officials are investigating whether the tsunami was caused by Anak Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait.

Volcanologist Jess Phoenix told the BBC that when volcanoes erupt, hot magma pushes underground and can displace and break through colder rock. This can trigger a landslide.

But because part of Krakatoa is underwater, she said "instead of just causing a landslide, you get an undersea landslide which pushes water as it moves." This can then cause a tsunami.


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 23 2018, @12:52PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday December 23 2018, @12:52PM (#777803) Homepage Journal

    I don't think even _I_ could make light of that.

    All of the members of the Indonesian pop band "Seventeen" are either dead or missing after a tsunami washed over their stage.

    When Krakatoa erupted in the 1880s the ash was visible in the air all over the world for eighteen months.

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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Sunday December 23 2018, @10:50PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Sunday December 23 2018, @10:50PM (#777937) Journal

    The current volcano is called "Anak Krakatau", which means "child of Krakatau". That old volcano exploded almost completely and the current one rose up from the sea in the past century. It is said that the shockwave went around the earth three and a half times in 1883.