August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

On August 26, 1883, in the afternoon, several explosions occurred at Krakatoa, a small volcanic island, west of Sumatra in Indonesia, sending ashes more than 27 km high in the atmosphere. On August 27 ...

The Tongan volcano eruption was triggered by an explosion as big as five underground nuclear bombs, reveals new research. The cataclysmic Hunga Tonga blast in January 2022 was the largest volcanic ...

In 2018, the eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano triggered a devastating tsunami in Indonesia. A new study reveals that ...