About Mount Krakatoa

Peaceful Krakatoa

Name of Volcano: Mount Krakatoa in the  Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia
Type of Volcano: Caldera
Category of Volcano: Active
Number of eruptions: 416AD, 535 AD, 1680s, Majour one on May 10, 1883, June 1927, 29 December 1927 , its most recent desruptive episode having begun in 1994 and in April 2008, the volcano released hot gases, rocks & lava.  
Physical & Human Landscape: Rocky outcrop, Frigate Bird, Dolphins, Whit-Bellied Sea Eagles,  Mosses fastoon the branches of the trees,which are stunted at the peak, wild sugarcane, 3 species of bats, 2 kind of dog- face fruit bat and rousette, fruit-eating pigeon [pink-neckedpigeon and cuckoo dove], Olive-backed Sunbird,Yellow breasted bird,The flyeater,The white breasted wood,-swallow,coloured kingfisher,and greeny blue with white "collar", paradise tree snake[Chrysopele paradisi],Rat{ratus-ratus],countryu rat[Rat Tiomanicus],tokay[gecko],black eagle,phytonand false vampire bat[ predator].
Danger the volcano poses: Nil as long as people remain at the recommended safe distance of two kilometers from the volcano & is a growing volcano so it goes through a constant number of eruptions, all within normal level, & it has a low-level tectonic activity typical of young volcanoes.
The types of things put in place to prevent loss & damage from the volcano erupting: Predicting the eruption, evacuation, restriction of land uses. Eg. seismometer & geodetic ones.
What i believe should be in place in monitoring a volcano: Use Geoelectric, Geomagnetic machines to study the volcano too as it caused one of the World's worst destruction
                      

           Krakatoa's 1883 Devastating Eruption

                                 

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