KRAKATOA ISLAND INDONESIA - THE GREAT VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN THE HISTORY AND HOW IT HAPPENED

THE BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS OF INDONESIA

According to the seismologists and volcanologists, Indonesia has 17% of most active volcanoes in the world and it contributed to its wonderful views. The country is susceptible to volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its geographical locations.

Krakatoa Island is located directly on the Subduction Zone wherein the Burmese plate and the Indo-Australian plate were colliding, causing one tectonic plate diving beneath another to the hot interior or core of the Earth. This incident made the crust or outer layer of the Earth to melt and the melted rocks find its way up to the surface resulting to volcanic eruption.

Unfortunately, in August 27, 1883, this uninhabited volcanic island erupted with the strength of a 150 million tons of DNT or Dinitrotoluene. This resulted in a tsunami which is twice the height of those in 2004, with the sound echoed around the planet or heard seven times louder and wiped out 167 towns and villages in Indonesia. It killed 36,417 people. The casualties were mainly due to the tsunami after the eruption.

Sadly, the names of the thousands of Indonesians who perished in the 1883 tsunami were not recorded and their details could not be found. But the names of the Europeans were widely published. Clearly, in those times inequality, greediness, and corruption already existed.

                           THE MAGMA FROM THE 1883 ERUPTION

The mixture of the dark magma created gas and pressure enough to cause the volcanic eruption.

                           THE TSUNAMI AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE

                               THE REMNANT FROM THE TSUNAMI 

                 THE CENTURIES OLD BOULDER FROM THE 1883 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

                     THE RECORDS FROM 1883 OF THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN KRAKATOA

           FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA TO OXFORD, ENGLAND - THE AFTER EFFECT RECORD

THIS FILM WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF INDONESIA UNDER THE SLAVERY OF THE DUTCH