[3catsanadog]

His “Krakatoa” was an excellent book. Couldn’t put it down.

[SE Mom]

1751: Daniel Kahl tweets: “Tokyo is a ghost town tonight. No people on the streets. Even the entertainment districts. Eerily quiet. But Tokyo is amazing. Even with blackouts, train problems, no rioting, no looting, no robberies

[BuckeyeTexan]

If you liked Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, you will also probably like these Winchester books.

• A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
  Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his nimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the egendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.
  
• The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
  In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell—clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world—making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Smith spent twenty-two years piecing together the fragments of this unseen universe to create an epochal and remarkably beautiful hand-painted map.