BKrakatoa exploded 143 years ago today: Noise heard 5,000km away that shaped Spain’s south-east
History’s loudest recorded bang went off on August, 27 1883. Sailors off Rodriguez Island, nearly 4,800 kilometres from Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, thought they were hearing distant naval guns. What they actually heard was Krakatoa tearing itself apart. That same morning is still in the calendar as one of those rare days when a local disaster became a planetary weather story, and Southeast Spain was… Source
History’s loudest recorded bang went off on August, 27 1883. Sailors off Rodriguez Island, nearly 4,800 kilometres from Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, thought they were hearing distant naval guns. What they actually heard was Krakatoa tearing itself apart. That same morning is still in the calendar as one of those rare days when a local disaster became a planetary weather story, and Southeast Spain was… Source
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