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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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ED DANAHUE

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Photograph during the eruption in 1883.

Pacific News Minute: A Look Back at the 1883 Anak Krakatau Eruption | Hawaii Public Radio
An 1888 lithograph of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait occurred
from 20 May until 21 October 1883, peaking in the late
morning hours of 27 August when over 70% of the island
of
Krakatoa and its surrounding archipelago were destroyed
as it collapsed into a
caldera.

The eruption was one of the deadliest and most destructive
volcanic events in
recorded history.

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ERUPTION OF ‘’THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN’’

At 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens, a
volcanic peak in southwestern
Washington, suffered
a massive eruption, killing 57 people and devastating
some 210 square miles of wilderness.

The Oregonian headlines when Mt. St. Helens errupted, May 18, 1980. | Oregon - Home Sweet Home ...

ST HELENS ERUPTS; 9 DEAD - Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980 | Newspaper headlines, Historical ...

Looking Back at Mount St. Helens' 1980 Eruption - Volcano Hopper

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POWERFUL VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN 1883

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A  lithograph of 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.


       

One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history occurred on Krakatoa (also called Krakatau), a small, uninhabited volcanic island east of Sumatra and west of Java, on August 27,
1883. Heard 3,000 miles away, the explosions threw five cubic
miles of earth 50 miles into the air, created 120-foot tsunamis
and killed 36,000 people.

        

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Illustration of volcanic island of Krakatoa before it blew. 

        
        
        
        

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
       

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

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VALCANO KILLED THOUSANDS ON THIS DAY

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On August 24, 79 AD after centuries of dormancy, Mount Vesuvius
erupted in southern Italy, devastating the prosperous Roman cities
of  Pompeii
and Herculaneum and killing thousands. The cities,
buried under a thick layer of volcanic material and mud, were
never rebuilt and largely
forgotten in the course of history.

In the 18th century, Pompeii and Herculaneum were rediscovered and
excavated, providing an 
unprecedented archaeological record of
the everyday life of an ancient civilization, startlingly preserved in
in sudden death.

 

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