![]() ![]() Its power has been estimated to be equivalent to that of 150 megatons of TNT, almost 10,000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. ![]() ![]() The explosion, one of the loudest in recorded history, was heard thousands of miles away and recorded by seismographs all over the world. NEW YORK (CNN) - Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, was said by natives to be the property of Orang Aliyeh, a Javan god who was said to breathe sulfur from his nostrils when all was not well on earth.Īpparently Orang was in a truly foul mood on the morning of August 27, 1883, when seismic forces long building beneath the mountain exploded with a force hitherto unknown to mankind, obliterating the island and triggering two tsunamis which killed over 35,000 people in the region. ![]()
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