r/nextfuckinglevel • u/8O8I • 18h ago

Volcano Eruption of Anak Krakatau

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u/lesschalkmoresighs 18h ago

"Anak Krakatau" means "child of Krakatau", this is the volcano that emerged from the remains of the island after the infamous 1883 eruption where the original mountain literally blew up, taking most of the island with it.

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u/CYBERSson 18h ago

Loudest noise in recorded history

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u/lesschalkmoresighs 17h ago

Yep, one of the most destructive explosions in recorded history. No survivors on closest island. Truly the stuff of nightmares.

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u/Specific-Ad9935 15h ago

I heard about Krakatau from my grandmother, and she heard it from her grand mother who were in South East Asia at that time. The whole area was dark for 3 days. The loud boom noise can be heard many miles away shattering glasses etc.

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u/IceFireTerry 15h ago

We kind of need another one to delay climate change a bit

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u/CPTMotrin 1h ago

You do realize that a huge volcano eruption can release centuries worth of carbon dioxide. Thus making CO2 levels even worse.

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u/xkemex 15h ago

I hope it happens near your town

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u/IceFireTerry 15h ago

I'm pretty sure the closest is Yellowstone even then I live on the East Coast

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u/ladydanger2020 17h ago

How do we know that? Genuine question. Did they have equipment to measure that back then?

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u/CYBERSson 17h ago

I think it was by how far away it was heard from, some knowledge of pressure waves and maths etc

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u/steveborg 17h ago

I believe scientific equipment of the era recorded the shock wave traversing the globe several times.

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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 17h ago

I think they surmised based on circumstantial evidence.

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u/jakopappi 17h ago

Circumnavigational evidence more like

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u/duckbutterdelight 14h ago

Circumcising evidence

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u/curiousmind111 17h ago

I believe it would have been based on how far way the sound was reported.

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u/Independent_Gap9280 15h ago

Not necessarily. If you google it and the Tongan volcano in 2022, it says Krakatoa is the loudest, but the sound from the Tonga volcano travelled further. Krakatoa was 4800km (3000 miles) whereas Tongan volcano was 10000km (6200 miles). From what I’ve read it’s to do “acoustic power” with decibels at the site.

From Google
Krakatoa (1883)
Acoustic Power: Estimated at an intense 310 decibels at the source, making it the highest absolute acoustic intensity ever calculated.

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u/curiousmind111 14h ago

Interesting. Apparent there was equipment at the time recording atmospheric pressure and there was a significant change at the time of the eruption. I didn’t expect there to instruments recording at that time.

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u/MambaMentality24x2 18h ago

This is the latest of 11 Indonesian volcanoes to erupt in 2026, and definitely the most impressive one so far. Anak Krakatau's eruption lasted around 25 hours, with ash reaching up to 50,000 feet

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u/GrandNibbles 18h ago

how many volcanoes do they have??

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u/MambaMentality24x2 18h ago

Around 130 active volcanoes, so it's not unusual for several of them to erupt in the same year. This is just the latest one, and probably the most dramatic one recently

Edit: typo

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u/BobLonghorn 17h ago

Enough for a ring

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u/InkAndAcorns 18h ago

Child of Krakatau

Its momma was a cranky wench

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u/TaxableCitizen 18h ago

Question, are volcanoes erupting more, or do we just now have cameras pointed at a majority of them?

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u/Depressed_Cat_00 18h ago

My bet is on the second one.

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u/GrandNibbles 18h ago

they are more frequent now due to the rising popularity of the dance "If you're happy and you know it", particularly the part where the entire group "stomps their feet"

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u/Denzalious 6h ago

Wow I never new this! I have now replaced stomping my feet with vigorous hip trust. I hope others will follow this movement

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u/markamuffin 18h ago

What's with the lightening?

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u/Rubysage3 17h ago

It's called volcanic lightning and it's a normal effect. Volcanic ash is not smooth and fine, it's very tiny pieces of jagged rock and dust. So when blasted out like that it sometimes creates a lot of chaotic high speed friction in the air and you get static and lightning out of it.

Not every volcano does this, they're all built different, but some of them do. Sometimes in really intense eruptions it can look like a whole thunderstorm in the ash plume.

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u/markamuffin 7h ago

That's so cool. Thanks for the explanation.

Also, lol at: what's the lightening in the volcano? It's called volcanic lightening.

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u/dbthegrandtour 18h ago

Noticed that too

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u/drmwright 18h ago

How beautifully terrifying

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u/chris971 18h ago

And this kids, is what happens when you eat bagged lettuce infected with cyclospora..

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u/Juract 17h ago

Little cute baby Krakatau wants be like daddy, he wants to cause a two years winter just like daddy 👶🐣

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u/Galactus1701 17h ago

Volcanic lightning makes it look scarier and more impressive than it already is. It feels so primordial.

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u/Azulado17 18h ago

Man,for me this is so beautiful,scary but beautiful,lol.

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u/nrith 18h ago

Krakatoa, east of Java

HOT LAVA!

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u/wit_happens 13h ago

Whoa, oh, look out, it's about to errupt!

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u/konrov 17h ago

bare in mind to reduce your CO2 kids

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u/Similar-Turnip2482 17h ago

Anyone have a rough idea how much force was in that eruption and what it’s comparable to?

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u/Denzalious 6h ago

~At least 3 truck stop curries, possibly 4

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u/OneSneakyBoi9919 16h ago

those lightning are so fucking metal, how tf did god figure that out??

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u/43rdworld 8h ago

Read (or listen) to Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester. Excellent book and narration by the author. Among other things, the story of the discovery and eventual adoption of plate tectonics was utterly fascinating

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u/bearssuperfan 8h ago

TIL when Squidward says “KRA-KA-TOW-A” in the superhero episode of SpongeBob he was referring to this

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u/Cayumigaming 6h ago

This has to be the coolest thing nature can do, it’s mesmerizing

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u/Denzalious 6h ago

Damm, mother nature seems like she's pretty upset recently, are we all in for a spanking soon?

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u/WorthlessOne85 16h ago

Earth said HNNNNNNNNGGGG

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u/lzwzli 16h ago

Son of a

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u/Growth-Budget 16h ago

Reminds me of chili night at uncle Tony’s house

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u/Some-Relative4150 18h ago

Vulcan is pissed!

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u/King_of_the_Ice 18h ago

The pimples of earth

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u/fuzzimus 18h ago

It had Taco Bell last night

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u/bakkamono 18h ago

Live feed: Me at 3am, after Taco Bell.

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u/koyliMeld9003 17h ago

She is one angry volcano!

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u/tholder 18h ago

I've seen my wife erupt in a very similar manner.