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Wife. >> so indonesian authorities say that this was one and a half meter high wave that rushed in to distances of about 500 meters inland, leaving behind death and destruction. the cause of it, they say, was not an earthquake as we saw as recently as last september with another earthquake that created a tsunami that killed some 2,000 people in another part of indonesia. this, they say, was caused by a volcano on a volcanic island called anak krakatoa in the sunda strait. now, some of our viewers may recognize the name krakatoa. that was the cataclysmic volcano in 1883 that killed more than 30...

Island in the middle of the strait that translates in english to child of krakatoa, that erupted in 1833, killing more than 30,000 people, and is believed to have sent global temperatures plummeting as a result of its massive ash cloud and it resulted in this island that formed some 50 years later, and that has been very active in recent months. but authorities in indonesia say the tsunami may have been worse saturday night as a result of a full moon and also the fact that it had been high tide. we saw images like the terrifying one of a wall of water breaking through a stage while the indones...

Western java and portions of sumatra. get to graphics. let's talk about the details, how this happened, what's the threats going forward. here is sumatra. here is java and the sunda straits. you can see on satellite, the eruption was so intense and the ash cloud lifted to high in the air that satellites picked up on it. that is the eruption plume from the krakatoa volcano. zoom into the area. this is a satellite perspective of the actual volcano. ivan talked about how in 1883 this volcano erupted and killed over 36,000 people with a similar type event, triggering a tsunami. and this is how thi...

Full of people that were trying to relax when this tsunami hit at 9:37 p.m. on saturday night. now, the cause of the tsunami, according to indonesian authorities appears to have been an underwater landslide caused by a volcanic eruption at anak krakatau. that is translated as child of crakatau. that island was created about 50 years after the 1883 just cataclysmic eruption of krakatau which killed at least 30,000 people and actually plunged global temperatures due the massive ash cloud as a result of that. authorities say this volcano had been active in recent months but the tsunami may have b...

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