Will children krakatau rocked the world again?
In the past, he killed thousands and changed the weather for five years, now it could be more fatal ...
An ominous sheen: In 1883, more than 36,000 people died when Krakatoa erupted - today, thousands more farmers live near the volcano. (Marco Fulle)
Sprayed bright orange lava into the air, mingling with clouds of dark smoke and the night turned into a grim nan red sheen that is not fun.
It has a 1,200 feet high above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has started to vibrate again.
Nearly 126 years now since Krakatau first showed signs of eruption, interesting photographs have been published this week which proves that the rest of the former huge volcano was boiling and overflowing.
With explosive force 13,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that rocked Hiroshima, the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 killed more than 36,000 people and radically change the weather and global temperatures for many years afterwards.
Risk: the steaming time bomb was located in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra.
The eruption was so great and all-powerful is a disaster that none of the volcanoes in the modern era can compete, even the spectacular eruption of Mount St. Helen's in the U.S. in 1980 was not. Now, nearly a half century, will we begin to experience the fear of Krakatau once again?
'Predisi volcanic getting better,' says Professor Jon Davidson, head of Earth scientists from Durham University and an expert volcanologist who has studied Krakatoa directly. 'But we will never be able to fully predict big and unusual eruptions precisely because he was outstanding.'
But there is little doubt that if Krakatau to erupt again with such force and fury, the impact will be far more deadly than it has previously experienced in the 19th century.
Official reports now indicate that the eruption in 1883, coincided with a major tsunami it generated, destroyed 165 villages and towns, 132 seriously damaged and killed over 36,417 people at once.
Nearly 150 years later, the region where Krakatoa located between Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago has more densely populated, with a lot of small farmers to rich and fertile volcanic soil in that area. It is inconceivable that hundreds of thousands of people could be killed if there was another major eruption.
Krakatau has a tremendous impact on this planet in the past. Global average temperature has dropped following the explosion of a total of 1.2 Celsius, when large amounts of sulfur dioxide gas pumped into the atmosphere producing clouds that reflect more light coming from the sun.
Mount Krakatau
Firestorm: In an interesting show lava and ash are mixed, Anak Krakatau reveal a hidden strength. In recent years, eruptions have increased in intensity.
Mount Krakatau
Crater devil: The eruption of Krakatoa revealed a malignant firestorm, add air threat.
Marco Fulle, 51, from Trieste, Italy, has been recording these images last month. As a scientist, astronomer and volcano expert, Fulle has photographed comets and volcanoes for years. Have spent many months to build up a picture portfolio, uniquely Fulle take place to capture the fury and terror of awakening giant.
'These volcanoes repeat explosions like in 1883 several times during his life,' he said. 'The general opinion that Krakatoa will be really dangerous when it reaches the size as in 1883. At that time, two times higher than it is now. '
Despite the optimism, there is no guarantee that another eruption will not appear immediately. It was the morning on May 20, 1883, when a German ship, Elizabeth, reported seeing a column of ash and the smoke that appeared seven miles above the island of Krakatoa.
It has been two centuries since the eruption of the right. Over the following months the smoke, noisy and dust continues. Far from advocating local residents to vacate the area, these natural firework displays resulted party.
Everything changed after noon on August 26, when the first large series of explosions sending debris shot 22 miles into the air. Then, at 5:30 the next morning, four great eruption had flung two-thirds of the island to the sea.
'There is a strong mixture of magma and seawater that makes it so powerful eruption, "said Professor Davidson. 'The water has been set way into the magma chamber and consequently hit the island in pieces.'
Five cubic miles of pumice, ash and rock spewed out, while the mega-eruption sounded so loud about 1,900 miles away in Perth, Western Australia, and 4,500 miles in Sri Lanka.
Initially as high as 2667 feet, Krakatoa had collapsed to 820 feet below sea level. Approximately 4,500 people were killed and many villages were destroyed, but far more deadly is that subsequent tsunami as high as 130 feet.
In Java, the waves quickly spread to the mainland. Five miles from the coast near the town of Merak, a living describes the moment when the wave struck on Monday morning. "We saw a big black thing coming towards us," he said. 'It's high, and we soon saw that it was water. The trees and houses were swept away. Is the usual difficulties to climb to a certain place. This causes a big obstacle, and one by one they drifted and carried by the water quickly. '
More than 90 percent of the people who were killed by Krakatoa died in the tsunami. In the years after the eruption, the area around Krakatoa was quiet. However, in 1927, steam and rock visible scum on the water, and soon Anak Krakatau began appearing on the sea surface.
In November 2007, the volcano began erupting again fierce, but the population of the island was thought that they had been apart from a possible disaster when everything went quiet in the previous year.
This spring, however, the volcano began to rumble again. Eruption after eruption has become so fierce illuminate the clouds on it and reveal a furious firestorm.
Some people, like Professor Davidson, doubt about the possibility of a major eruption is going to happen soon. "Just not enough magma," he said. 'Rather than make predictions like this, is the responsibility of scientists to do what it can to reduce the risk to those living in the vicinity. It is something that we solve. "
People in the Sunda Strait can only hope and pray that, this time, the scientists are right
Threats: Afterglow embers on the surface of the top of the newly active, causing locals to worry if another eruption is coming.
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