August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa ... blow up as it did in 1883. That explosion ...