krakatoa

Kind of crazy to think that humans made a bomb 1/4 as powerful as the Krakatoa eruption.

Oceanic telegraph lines were in place, so the explosion of Krakatoa became world-wide news within a day.

Real life examples: The year Krakatoa exploded, there was enough ash in the air to cause an abnormally cold summer in Europe.

It just boggles my mind that even at this distance Krakatoa was deadly.

The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of the Krakatoa eruption was 6, and it's estimated to be a roughly once in a century eruption.

After the Krakatoa eruption for years the world had a cooler climate.

Coincidentally, today is also the day that Krakatoa started to erupt.

We might learn a lot of climate science by gathering data on the explosion of Krakatoa and the subsequent effects on the polar ice caps.

Something that makes this extra intriguing: the exact antipode of Krakatoa seems to be in an inhabited area on the banks of the Rio Magdalena in Colombia.

I suspect it is related to the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883...

The antipode of Krakatoa is Bogotá, Colombia.

The Tsar bomb was in the ballpark of a 50 megaton explosion, whereas estimates that I've seen for Krakatoa put it at up to 200 megatons.

Adding "krakatoa" to ngram reveals that it may just be tied to the spike, though perhaps this is just correlation.

To put this in context, the Krakatoa eruption released energy roughly equivalent to a 200 megaton bomb, which is roughly four times larger than the "Tsar Bomba", an H-Bomb which is the largest nuclear weapon detonated to date.

If you dial down the smoothing, there is a blip right before Krakatoa's rise (1884-1887).

Come to think of it, it must have been really loud somewhere diametrically opposite to Krakatoa, 17 hours after the eruption...

The animation/rendering of the blue and cyan particles on the page I'm sure is done by Krakatoa, a renderer I wrote.