Posted on 07/31/2009 10:04:53 AM PDT by TaraP
Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow.
Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more.
Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over.
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Awesome picture, love how the big dipper points right at the volcano.
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Damn...that looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings.
Flying from Singapore to Australia at night offers a fantastic view of the string of active volcanoes in Indonesia.
Maybe an eruption of one of these would solve our global warming problem.
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Yes they are awesome pic’s..
More:
With an explosive force 13,000 times the power of the atomic bomb that annihilated Hiroshima, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa killed more than 36,000 people and radically altered global weather and temperatures for years afterwards.
The eruption was so violent and catastrophic that no active volcano in modern times has come close to rivalling it, not even the spectacular eruption of Mount St Helens in the U.S. in 1980. Now, almost a century-and-a-half on, are we about to experience the horrors of Krakatoa once again?
‘Volcanic prediction is getting better,’ says Professor Jon Davidson, chair of Earth Science at Durham University and a volcanologist who has studied Krakatoa first-hand. ‘But we are never going to be able to fully predict big and unusual eruptions, precisely because they are unusual.’
Yet there is little doubt that if Krakatoa were to erupt again with such force and fury, the impact would be far more devastating than that which was experienced in the 19th century.
Exactly. I was in a language class where the liberal professor was discussing global warming with the students who were agreeing. Eventually, he asked me what I thought. I said “we are potentially one big volcano eruption away from a global cooling or another ice age”. He ended the discussion.
Firestorm: In an awesome display of flaming lava and molten ash, Anak Krakatoa - the child of Krakatoa - reveals its latent power. In recent years, eruptions have steadily grown in intensity
Threat: Embers glow on the surface of the newly active cone, causing locals to worry that another eruption is on its way
We have actually been in global cooling since 1998. Likely it will continue. Yes an eruption would cause it to accelerate but we are cooling anyway.
Now we got an Indonesian volcano that will screw up the rest of the world.
Would that be “East of Java?”
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Wonderful photos. I picked up an old book awhile ago and a thrift store on Krakatoa. Full of old telegrams, letters, photos, etc. of Krakatoa from the 1800’s. Amazing stuff. It was mainly the HUGE tsunami that was created from the eruption. MUCH larger than the Indian ocean tsunami IIRC.
Beautiful pics! Great Post!
parsy.
Any babes that want to leave Indonesia as a precaution, I’ve got extra room.
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