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Volcanic eruption at the anak krakatoa volcano triggered a land is slide. part of the sunda strait collapsed sliding into the sea with enough force to set that you have tsunami wave. it was a full moon at the time. the tides were higher than normal which meant the impact was worse and, look, this was a holiday weekend in indonesia. families traveled to these gorgeous beach side hotels and resorts to spend quality time with one another. it flattened coastal areas, damaged homes, cars, hospitals right now overwhelmed with patients and frankly those folks are the lucky ones. many are struggling t...

Time left to get to people trapped beneath the rubble while they're still alive and there's also a worry about a potential second tsunami. this is a real threat because the volcano that experts believe caused this tsunami is still active. it normally takes the force of an earthquake to trigger a tsunami wave. not in this case. experts believe a volcanic eruption triggered an underwater landslide. this is a thousand foot tall mountain in the middle of the sunda strait, a part of it collapsed, sliding into the sea with enough force to set off the deadly ten foot all the tsunami wave. that volcan...

That caused destruction obviously. on our satellite loop, we actually timed this out and you can see the exact moment when the volcano erupted. the plume of smoke and ash was so high and so intense that it was picked up by satellite. there's that shading of red and orange. that is the eruption plume from the krakatau volcano. let ee's zoom into the strait. this erupted back in 1883 and that killed over 36,000 people all due to a similar instance to what we're experiencing today although we're not expecting that kind of number. however, what we do know from that volcano back in the 1800s was th...

In doing that, it pushes up that water, generating that tsunami wave. now, locally speaking for a lot of those areas along the coastlines, this can be a very severe tsunami. it's a very localized tsunami, but even still, you have the two islands between java and sumatra, where the volcano exists between those two. both of those coastlines on those islands were affected. here is the thing. the volcano is not just going to standpoint because it erupted once. it is very still likely it will continue to erupt and subsequent underwater landslides could still happen. for a lot of these folks that li...

Rick, this map, i think superinteresting. can you explain it to the viewers? we've been talking about this at the break. >> reporter: the usga auto plots anywhere where there's seismic activity anywhere around the globe. you can see a lot of spots here where we've had some sort of activity. biggest one, obviously, right there in that center which is very close to the anchorage area. my map is not gonna move forward. it did, now it's stuck. i will tell you initially they issued that tsunami for the cook inlet. lot of times we've seen in the last number of years with all of the significant tsuna...