When Krakatau was erupted at 10.02, Sunday morning, 27 August, 1883, 36.417 people were killed by one of the greatest volcanic eruption that ever happened on earth. The victims were not only suffered by the pyroclastics of Krakatau but also swept by tsunami which had drawn 297 Desas (a small administrative u- nit of human settlement). Of the 297 Desas, 165 of them were completely vanished from …
Nature gave one of its warnings in late May 1883. The uninhabited, largely ignored island of Krakatau, in the middle of the Sunda Straits between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, suddenly stirred. Billowing clouds of smoke and booming thunder caused a small shiver of terror among the inhabitants of the nearby islands.
Just 100 years ago, on the morning of August 27, 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatau, Indonesia, erupted in what was, in terms of human losses, the deadliest volcanic event in at least 3,000 years, the U.S. Geological Survey noted.
It is, indeed, both a pleasure and a privilege for me to welcome you on behalf of the Indonesian Governement and of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) at the Opening Ceremony of the Symposium on the 100th Vear Development of Mt. Krakatau and its Surroundings. LIPI is most happy to have you all with us today, since by your very presence you have also honoured us at LIPI's sixteenth anni…