Similar words: kraken, zakat, muckrake, muckraker, muckraking, akathisia, saskatoon, cockatoo. Meaning: n. a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history.
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(1) The volcanic eruption on Krakatoa had an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.
(2) All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere, and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour.
(3) This Krakatoa is at once exhausting and riveting .
(4) Finally consider the island of Krakatoa.
(5) Some of the most violent past eruptions, like Krakatoa in Java, resulted from magma coming in contact with water.
(6) Indonesia is also rich in volcanoes, the most famous being the now vanished Krakatau (Krakatoa), which was located between Sumatra and Java.
(7) Krakatoa itself was virtually destroyed, although later eruptions have created a new island in the same place.
(8) Santorini was about 4 times larger than Krakatoa, and probably at least twice as violent. Sentencedict.com
(9) Krakatoa, rated 6 on the VEI, was equivalent to about 200 megatons of TNT – at least three times as much as Tsar Bomba.
(10) Note that large volcanoes, like Pinatubo and Krakatoa, were followed by a fractional — but significant — drop in temperature.
(11) On August 26-27 1883, Krakatoa erupted and continually sent enormous plumes of ash and dust into the sky.
(12) It was these, not so much the explosions perse that made the Krakatoa eruption the most lethal on record.
(13) The so-called Oruanui eruption was the most recent volcanic event to score the maximum 8 on the VEI – 10 times bigger than Tambora, and 100 times bigger than Krakatoa.
(14) Coincidentally, the masterpiece was inspired by the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
(15) One of the most famous eruptions in history, of the volcano Krakatoa(sentencedict.com), occurred in the Sunda Strait between the two islands.
(16) People first spotted the noctilucent clouds a few years after the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa super-volcano in Indonesia created spectacular sunsets from ash in the atmosphere.
(17) Coincidentally, it is thought that the masterpiece was inspired by the blood red skies caused by the powerful volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
(18) Recent scientific work has established that the Santorini eruption was up to 10 times more powerful than the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
(19) Indonesia is the site of two of the worst volcanic eruptions of the past two centuries, Tambora in 1815 and Krakatoa in 1883.
(20) Only one explosion in recent history has made it to 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index – 10 times bigger than Krakatoa.