Posted on 12/22/2018 4:56:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
At least 20 people have been killed and 165 injured after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, government officials say.
The country's disaster management agency says two people are missing, and dozens of buildings were damaged.
It says the possible cause of the tsunami were undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted.
The Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra connects the Java Sea to the Indian Ocean.
The deaths were reported in the Pandeglang, South Lampung and Serang regions.
Officials warn that the death toll is likely to rise further. The disaster management agency said high seas as a result of the full moon may also have contributed to the strength of the wave.
Eyewitness Oystein Lund Andersen, who was on the beach at the time, told the BBC two waves had hit, with the second much bigger than the first.
Mr Andersen, a Norwegian professional volcano photographer, said he had rushed to the hotel where his family were staying, and they later went to a higher ground in a forest.
He added that there had been heavy eruption sound prior to the tsunami.
Footage posted by the head of disaster agency showed the aftermath of the tsunami, with flooded streets and an overturned car.
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Look for the Indonesians to sue the Javanese in International Court for failure to enact volcano control.
That would be a good movie title or name of a metal band.
Prayers up for all who are impacted.
Krakatoa?
Naw, just stubbed it.
CC
Thanks for the info.
TRUMP’S FAULT!! /s
Not related but one I just heard:
You didn’t walk under that ladder. Are you superstitious?
No, just a little stitious.
... set off by the torrid dancing of Krakatoa Katy, the hottest dancer of them all.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151566/
Last time this volcano blew it brought the year with no summer...plus the explosion was heard around the world...
With “Casino Evil’ as the backup band...
Saw Krakatoa East of Java with my parents in the 70s, a Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome theater.
It had an extra wide screen (I believe known as Panavision) and it was quite an experience.
Hope the death toll is minimal.
I’d be living on high ground there if I were there and could.
So far, the name, “Anak Krakatua”, seems to fit, with the latest eruption shooting an ash cloud up to 1300 ft. above the volcano, which itself is approx. 2,667 ft. high. By comparison, Pinatubo (Philippines) shot ash 100,000 ft. in the eruption that KO’d Clark AFB. And in 1883, Krakatua sent ash 50 miles high, in explosions heard 3,000 miles away.
“Child of Krakatau” (so far) indeed!
Prayers up for all these folks. Too reminiscent of the Great Tsunami, about ten years ago.
Isn’t Java Indonesia?
Java is one of the major islands of Indonesia. The country's capital, Jakarta, is on the island of Java.
The time before that apparently brought years. In 416 AD it seems a much larger eruption happened there. In fact what some think is the collapsed caldera from that eruption is, IIRC, some ten times larger than the caldera left by the 1883 eruption.
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