Indonesia’s Krakatoa Volcano Erupts Propelling Ash Into the Stratosphere: WATCH
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The Krakatoa volcano off the coast of Indonesia erupted Friday in a powerful maelstrom of ash and lava so strong that it reached the stratosphere.
According to The Daily Mail, “Two eruptions were recorded by the country’s volcanology centre on Friday night between 9.58pm and 10.35pm local time, and have continued into today. Residents of capital Jakarta, 150km away, reported hearing ‘loud rumbles’ shortly after the eruptions.”
A webcam image taken from Anak Krakatau Island, which is in the Sunda Strait, shows lava flowing from the volcano.
https://twitter.com/ISCResearch/status/1248860200506920960
The Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation’s (PVMBG) magma volcanic activity report said that the first eruption lasted one minute and 12 seconds starting at 9:58 p.m., when it spewed out ash and smoke 200 meters high. The volcanology center reported a second eruption at 10:35 p.m. that lasted for 38 minutes and 4 seconds, spewing out a 500-meter-high column of ash that blew to the north. PVMBG monitoring shows that the eruption continued until Saturday morning at 5:44 WIB [Western Indonesian Time],’ said the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s head of data.
Satellite images detected a ‘large magmatic eruption’ with ash and plume shooting 15km (47,000ft) into the sky.
The Jakarta Post reports: Some internet users in Greater Jakarta said they had heard a loud rumble before reports of eruptions and assumed that they were hearing the sound of Anak Krakatau after being informed about the volcano. The authorities, however, doubted the assumption, saying the eruptions could not even be heard from the Anak Krakatau observation post. Volcanology expert Surono, however, suggested that netizens in Greater Jakarta could be right. The sound caused by the eruption could have echoed throughout Greater Jakarta as there was less activity and noise in the area as a result of large-scale social restrictions over COVID-19, he said.
Coincidentally, Friday marked the first day of a partial lockdown in the capital.
Anak Krakatau is erupting now. The first image is from our webcam:https://t.co/O8KFco7NOx
The second photo was taken from our observatory (~43 km from the volcano). pic.twitter.com/nlHHWIyuAw
— Dr. Devy Kamil Syahbana ???? (@volcanohawk) April 10, 2020
Following Friday’s eruptions, residents of the Kalianda coastline in South Lampung also evacuated, fearing that a tsunami might occur again.
In 1883, Krakatau volcano erupted in one of the biggest blasts in recorded history, killing more than 36,000 people in a series of tsunamis and lowering the global surface temperature by 1 degree Celsius with its ash. Anak Krakatau is the island that emerged from the area in 1927 and has been growing ever since.
Wait can we just talk about volcanic lightning because it's the coolest?
Lightning at the bottom of the volcanic plume is caused by ash particles colliding so rapidly, it builds up enough static charge to generate a whole ass lightning bolt.#Krakatoa pic.twitter.com/uIQRiftIln
— Evie MacK (@_stephani_says_) April 11, 2020
You can watch the eruption in slow motion in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GECbIa3Gy4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1VuQfQG7LdF-w4o3R69FKx403fPM-bZ_ncvd3YA6hjn8LVA5NNpvVYyss
