What caused the explosion of Krakatoa?
The explosion of Krakatoa was the biggest bang of recorded history. Its thunderous roar was heard 3,000 miles away and its dust hung in the atmosphere over the world for several years. The stupendous upheaval started a titanic tidal wave that swept on its way from ocean to ocean around the globe. The earth’s most restless region of earthquakes and volcanoes surrounds.the Pacific Ocean. It is called the Ring of Fire. At one point, the ring detours in a sharp loop northwestward through Indonesia, paralleling a necklace of volcanic islands. Sumatra and Java form the western curve of the loop. These two long, thin islands are separated by a narrow finger of the Indian Ocean called the Sunda Strait. But this was not always so. In the remote past, this narrow strait was occupied by an immense volcano. Long before recorded history, this giant mountain exploded with an earth shaking blast. Most of the mountain above and below the water was blown to dust and the sea rushed in and created the Su
