Krakatoa volcano explodes: spectacular huge eruption two months before 2018 tsunami
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Published 2018-10-21
Video was taken during a VolcanoDiscovery expedition to Krakatau from 13-20 Oct 2018. In the afternoon of 17 Oct, a particularly violent explosion occurred as lateral blast that excavated a pit crater beneath the southern lid of the crater, at the same location the September lava flow had overspilled from the crater. By 19 Oct, this new pit had merged with the main crater, enlarging it.
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All Comments (21)
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Finally somebody who: - Holds the camera steady - Does not film with a calculator, but just in FULL HD - Does not film in portrait mode Sir - You need a medal for that
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That 1940's outboard motor puttering in the background doesn't exactly inspire confidence of a quick getaway.
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Someone give this man a medal for his filming skills 👏
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That's really formidable, amazing! But it's dangerous being so close to an erupting volcano, especially if it's a such tremendous and powerful one like the well-known notorious Krakatau!
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The real Krakatoa destroyed itself in 1883! This is the Child of Krakatoa called Krakatau!
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“Hey that Volcano just erupted” “don’t worry, I know CPR”
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I seem to remember reading that the bang of Krakatoa circled the globe three times. Presumably the loudest natural sound in human history.
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From the title All I can think of is that one episode with squidward as the superhero LOL.
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I told you guys 🌋 🐙
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* krakatoa explodes * cameraman: cklckla clk clik calsks clks
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Good for them on the camera. Can’t imagine how that must look and feel in person, and how to decide what to frame. Figure that’s about as good of a job as you could do all things considered.
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Looks amazing!! I’m surprised by the lack of the boom though - so quiet, given the violence
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that volcano is called ''anak kakatau'' or krakatoa child. If krakatoa, it's been gone for a long time. sorry for my english.
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Where are the damn drones when u need them
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I like how now they have continuous live streams set up at the volcanos to capture the initial eruption so that people dont have to think they need to film it current status of yellowstone: fine
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my first thought: i hope that's a really incredibly good zoom on the cam and they weren't actually dumb enough to get this close to the crater of an active volcano
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Now imagine back in 1883 when it first blew its top. The percussive blast was so powerful, it could be heard 4000 miles around the earth. Plus when it did explode, the entire island was decimated to sea level leaving only fifteen feet of land left. 200 + years later, it grew back to this size. The fastest evolving island on the planet. During its first eruption however, it wiped out over 160 villages and killed over 35000 people while those who survived were left deaf permanently. These guys are lucky since the island is made up of more softer material to cushion the blast. In 1883 it was made up of dense compacted granite, which was why the explosion was so loud. Much like Mount rainier of today that scientists are watching very closely. If that mountain blows, it will wipe out both seattle and tacoma combined. Volcanoes are incredibly beautiful to look at during its clearance phase, but one could compare them to - a subatomic time bomb. You just never know when one will wake up even with the best equipment.
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Krakatoa, referring to Anak Krakatau: "That's my son! I'm so proud of him."
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In hindsight you can really see how Anak Krakatau was setting itself up for the collapse and tsunami later that year. The vent system migrated towards the flank that eventually failed with the added material on the flank, plus being on the edge of the 1883 caldera left the whole thing poised to sink. As terrible as the tsunami in December 2018 was, I wish that was caught on camera.
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A local guide boated us to Anak Krakatoa in 2012 and they dropped us on the volcano.. and you'd just walk up as close as you wanted, unguided. The guide just stayed on the boat and waved us to go on up and check it out. It was blowing ash and small rocks out while we walked about half way up with some flip flops on. Seems insane in hindsight