Sabtu, 24 September 2011

Krakatau Volcano

Indoesia has many volcanoes. Among the Krakatoa volcano that lies in the Sunda Strait.
Mount Krakatau volcano is one of the very powerful eruption. Massive eruption occurred on 26-27 August 1883. Eruption caused the earthquake and tsunami that so powerful that it killed 36,000 people. The eruption was heard even in Alice Springs, Australia and the island of Rodrigues near Africa. Yield estimated 30,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that was detonated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II. Ashes reach the continent of Europe and America and shut down most of the earth's atmosphere.
        Mount Krakatau was destroyed after a massive eruption and divided into several small islands and the child of Krakatoa.