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The Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Krakatoa (Indonesia) categories.
The 1883 Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-02
The 1883 Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the eruption *Includes a bibliography for further reading "In 1883, Krakatoa suddenly sprang into notoriety. Insignificantly though it had hitherto seemed the little island was soon to compel by its tones of thunder the whole world to pay it instant attention. It was to become the scene of a volcanic outbreak so appalling that it is destined to be remembered throughout the ages." - Sir Robert Ball Volcanic eruptions have amazed people for millennia, and notorious ones like the eruption of Mount St. Helens can still be immediately recalled even by some who weren't alive at the time, but perhaps the most famous and most destructive eruption in modern history was the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. Even without the instantaneous forms of communication that are now available, the world watched in wonder for new updates about a tiny South Pacific island, and though few of them would ever go there, Krakatoa remained a source of fascination for the much of the world for the next 50 years. Krakatoa had already been the scene of volcanic activity for hundreds of years, and some of the eruptions had been documented by early European explorers in the 17th century. In 1681, one Dutchman named Johann Wilhelm Vogel noted, "I saw with amazement that the island of Krakatoa, on my first trip to Sumatra [June 1679] completely green and healthy with trees, lay completely burnt and barren in front of our eyes and that at four locations was throwing up large chunks of fire. And when I asked the ship's Captain when the aforementioned island had erupted, he told me that this had happened in May 1680...He showed me a piece of pumice as big as his fist." Nonetheless, nobody could have prepared for the scope of the 1883 eruption, which was so violent that it destroyed most of the island of Krakatoa and could be heard about 3,000 miles away. The force of the explosion was equivalent to four times the strength of the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated, and the spread of ash and lava, as well as the tsunamis generated by the force of the eruption, ultimately killed at least 35,000 people (and possibly over 100,000) across the Dutch East Indies. With plumes of smoke rising upwards of 50 miles in the air, Krakatoa's eruption influenced the entire global climate for several years, and debris and corpses were still washing up on shores across the Pacific throughout that time. The force was so powerful that it actually affected the height of waves in the English Channel. The 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa chronicles the history of one of the world's most notorious natural disasters. Along with a bibliography and pictures of important people and places, you will learn about Krakatoa like never before, in no time at all.
The Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Rupert Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Release Date : 1989
The Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Rupert Matthews and has been published by Franklin Watts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Krakatoa (Indonesia) categories.
Describes the the eruption of the volcanic mountain of Krakatoa, west of the island of Java in 1883. Discusses the cultural history and daily life of the island's peoples, the buildup of the volcano, and life on the island today.
The Eruption Of Krakatoa And Subsequent Phenomena
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Eruption Of Krakatoa And Subsequent Phenomena written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Krakatau categories.
The Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Rupert Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Rupert Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Krakatoa (Indonesia) categories.
Krakatau 1883 The Volcanic Eruption And Its Effects
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Author : Tom Simkin
language : en
Publisher: Computer Science Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1983
Krakatau 1883 The Volcanic Eruption And Its Effects written by Tom Simkin and has been published by Computer Science Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
From the Blurb: On August 26 and 27, 1883, the island volcano Krakatau erupted, ejecting more than four cubic miles of debris and creating a huge plume of gas and ashes that rose to an altitude of thirty miles. Spectacular, fiery sunsets resulted, lighting the skies of North America and Europe in the following months. This was one of history's most terrifying and destructive volcanic eruptions. Great sea waves crested to heights of 118 feet, crashing on the coasts of Java and Sumatra and killing more than 30,000 people. The eruption's loudest blasts were heard nearly 3,000 miles away. Simkin and Fiske have gathered eighty-eight eyewitness accounts, describing the events in the words of people who were there, and have selected twenty-eight scientific interpretations of the various phenomena written over the last one-hundred years. They have illustrated the book with more than 250 photographs, engravings, drawings, and maps, and have traced an extensive chronology of events. The result is a comprehensive volume on this benchmark event-history's most famous eruption. In addition to geologists, oceanographers will be interested in the devastating sea waves, meteorologists in the worldwide atmospheric effects, biologists in the return of life to barren island remnants, but any general reader will be fascinated by the eyewitness accounts of this spectacular eruption and its truly global effects.
Krakatoa
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Author : Kathy Furgang
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2000-12-15
Krakatoa written by Kathy Furgang and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides a brief history of the Indonesian volcano that errupted in 1883 and was heard as far away as Australia and Japan.
The Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain) Krakatoa
language : en
Publisher: Andesite Press
Release Date : 2015-08-08
The Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Royal Society (Great Britain) Krakatoa and has been published by Andesite Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-08 with categories.
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Krakatoa
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Author : Simon Winchester
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-02-05
Krakatoa written by Simon Winchester and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-05 with Science categories.
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event that has only very recently been properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round die planet for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The sound of the island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significant of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger in Java a wave of murderous anti-Western militancy among fundamentalist Muslims: one of the first outbreaks of Islamic-inspired killings anywhere. Simon Winchester's long experience in the world wandering as well as his knowledge of history and geology give us an entirely new perspective on this fascinating and iconic event as he brings it telling back to life.
The Eruption Of Krakatoa
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Author : Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-03
The Eruption Of Krakatoa written by Royal Society (Great Britain). Krakatoa and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
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