Piek van Ternate (Puncak Ternate) menjadi nama lain G.Gamalama yang tingginya +1715 m. Letaknya di Pulau Ternate, Provinsi Maluku, Kabupaten Maluku Utara. Erupsi pada 25 April 1990 merupakan yang ke 76 dihitung sejak pertengahan abad ke 16. Berdasarkan statistik, pernah berlangsung letusan beruntun setiap tahun.
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 …
Dutch reactions to the Krakatau eruption, a paper based upon some 19th century publications and upon archival material such as the series "mailreports" originating from the Dutch Ministry of Colonies and some private letters and reports. It presents a description of personal experiences of cye-witnesses, Dutch government regulations in connection with the Krakatau events, charity, and in an imp…
An eye-witness account on the eruption of the Mountain Krakatau on hundred yeansvaro is found in the form of a poen in two lithographed editions in Arabic script. Both lithographed Singaporean editions are found in the National Library, Jakar- ta. Each of then are called Inilah Syair Lampung Dinaiki Air Laut ("this is a poen about Lampung when it was flooded by the sen-water"s furthen mentioned…
Krakatau Volcanic Complex located in Sunda Strait, Indonesia, erupted catastrophically in 1883. The eruption was preceeded by the increasing number of seismicity during the last 7 years prior to the eruption. The initial stage of the eruption was indicated by the ash outburst of Perbu- atan volcano in May and followed by another activity in the area south of Danan Volcano in July, 1883. Ashes i…
Pumice flow of the 1883 Krakatau eruption occurs It at Small Rakata, Rakata and Sertung Islands, those which roughly correspond to the wall of Krakatau caldera, Indonesia. significantly differs in both mineral and chemical compositions against any other volcanic rock or ejecta of the Krakatau Group, those of which belong to Miyashiro's (1974) tholeiitic series. Meanwhile, lithic fragments of gr…
Naar aalending van een verzoek van den Resident van Palembang werd door mij van 12 tot 18 Februari 1940 een onder zoeknaar den toestand van den Dempo en de gevolgen van de jongste uitbarstingen, vooral van die van 30 Januari 1940, ingesteld.
Krakatau's eruptive activity reawakened as sub marine on December 29 1927, and after several brief or longer cyclus of erosion and denudation the volcano finally rose above sea level definetly between Augst 11 and September 10. 1930 as Anak Krakatau IV.
Krakatau was studied from September 10 - 12. The 1883 eruption produced a large non - walded ignimbrite deposit (ash - flow) which covers large areas of Rakata, Sertung and Rakata Islands. We landed on all three islands at accesible points and axamined coastal exposures of the 1883 deposit.
Renewed activities started on March 13 with an eruption, soon succeeded by bigger scale eruptions acoompanied by ejection of incandes cent lava fragments. Ash showers fell along the western coast of java adn sometimes on the Southern coast of Sumatera, depanding on the prevailing winds.