Krakatoa: The First Disaster of the Modern Era

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Source/Further reading:
History, overview: www.history.com/topics/natura...
Britannica: www.britannica.com/place/Krak...
Independent, How Krakatoa Made the Biggest Bang: www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...
ABC Podcast: www.abc.net.au/radio/programs...
NYT, detailed review of book on eruption: www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/bo...
Nautilus, the Sound so Loud It Circled the World Four Times: nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-l...
NOAA overview: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/day-hi...
LA Times, the Crack of Doom: www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
Sunsets, and effect on art: www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/ar...
2018 eruption: www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
Brief history of undersea cables: www.britannica.com/technology...
First mention in NYT, 27 August, 1883: timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel3 жыл бұрын

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  • @leadershipisaphilosophy

    @leadershipisaphilosophy

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @ekodyyn

    @ekodyyn

    3 жыл бұрын

    lah ngebug

  • @wpjohn91

    @wpjohn91

    3 жыл бұрын

    You missed the global cooling effect it had fact boy 👍

  • @helmetfire5973

    @helmetfire5973

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dude! thanks for the Winnipeg shoutout! Manitoba #1

  • @alancharlton7892

    @alancharlton7892

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is NO VOLCANO NAMED ANAK KRAKATOA! The correct name is ANAK KRAKATAO. The O & A are reversed to be A & O at the end of its name.

  • @jcarlile8279
    @jcarlile82793 жыл бұрын

    Every time I hear Krakatoa I always think of spongebob.

  • @itscarlo7179

    @itscarlo7179

    3 жыл бұрын

    KRAKATOAAAAAAA

  • @deviricx983

    @deviricx983

    3 жыл бұрын

    Volcano man

  • @WiskinWaffles

    @WiskinWaffles

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha sqiudward

  • @Linuxpunk81

    @Linuxpunk81

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think of seinfeld

  • @charity6372

    @charity6372

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think of Meet the Faukers!🤣

  • @WayToVibe
    @WayToVibe3 жыл бұрын

    When he said the sound wave traveled around the world FOUR TIMES before it stopped, and an entire ship of sailors lost their hearing because of it, is heinous. Mother Nature just wasn't having it that day.

  • @mutt9779

    @mutt9779

    3 жыл бұрын

    "And entire ship" I imagine a FUCK TON more than just that boat went deaf lol Makes me wonder, what would happen if everything on earth is deafened in an instance like this? How many animals would just drop dead on the spot, how many would overpopulate(not being hunted by predators that utilize sound) and what else would happen? I'm actually surprised that if the sound wave wrapped the world 4 times(a fact I've heard elsewhere, so I'm not doubting you) it didn't just instantly deafen everyone out in the open(sound waves are probably different than i imagine, but DAMN is that a crazy sound to imagine) Bonus note: When I was in high school, I liked shouting awkward and stupid questions at teachers, and just seeing if they try and answer, or say "your being silly"(stupid kid shit, I know) One year, I asked one of my favorite teachers, on the first day(literally the first words she heard me say) "WHAT'S THE LOUDEST NOISE YOU'VE HEARD!?" She was baffled but it makes me laugh in hindsight. I think she even mentioned Krakatoa, as a contender for "all time loudest noise" lol

  • @hankhicks1108

    @hankhicks1108

    3 жыл бұрын

    "EHH?"

  • @SamsExotics

    @SamsExotics

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mutt9779 alllll lol ll)

  • @skaetur1

    @skaetur1

    3 жыл бұрын

    What?

  • @Jordan-subj

    @Jordan-subj

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mutt9779 Sound waves weaken with distance. There were levels of danger based on how close you were. It would be lethal sound pressure close to it, deafening a little farther out, painful a little more out, then loud, and so on until you couldn't hear it anymore.

  • @MichaelHarto
    @MichaelHarto2 жыл бұрын

    Living in indonesia personally, i've always thought to myself that we're living on a timebomb without knowing the timer.

  • @Raic-

    @Raic-

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, there an earthquake this morning

  • @nfspbarrister5681

    @nfspbarrister5681

    2 жыл бұрын

    Time-bombs...plural. We have CHAINS of it too ..with very nasty tempers too. Recently, even Toba starting active again. Damn.

  • @Madjo-qj2ge

    @Madjo-qj2ge

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ring of Fire, Brother Ring of Fire

  • @tiaravenesa

    @tiaravenesa

    2 жыл бұрын

    We're living in the fuse line of the many chains of bombs around the world 🙃

  • @belladonna8425

    @belladonna8425

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm currently waiting for Yellowstone to blow.

  • @mland2012
    @mland20122 жыл бұрын

    I've heard stats like "it was audible in Australia" or "they were able to measure the sound in London" before, but the "imagine a blast in Bogota making people in Winnipeg go 'that was loud, eh?'" line really put those stats into perspective.

  • @real_melody_barnes

    @real_melody_barnes

    2 жыл бұрын

    As a Winnipeger, I’m just happy we got mentioned. It’s very rare unless in other Canadian cities in the sports section of papers in November 2019.

  • @missunderstanding357

    @missunderstanding357

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@real_melody_barnes I decided that if I moved to Canada, I'd settle in Winnipeg. Hope that makes you feel better. 😊

  • @gomilopez1

    @gomilopez1

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey Bogotá :DDDDD

  • @billclinton984

    @billclinton984

    Жыл бұрын

    idk where either of those places are

  • @addisonfrance

    @addisonfrance

    Жыл бұрын

    @@billclinton984 Colombia and Cananda

  • @azrasashima3733
    @azrasashima37333 жыл бұрын

    the connection of krakatoa to the infamous the scream painting is mind blowing lol.

  • @goochfitness26

    @goochfitness26

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fr I didn’t know that until now 😂😂

  • @Winterfur1

    @Winterfur1

    3 жыл бұрын

    I knew that since I was 13 (2005) watching documentaries about Krakatoa.

  • @lars69420

    @lars69420

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah dude totally. So deep. I ate my dinner too fast and I got the hiccups. Exactly like krakatoa

  • @markdturnock

    @markdturnock

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Winterfur1 well aren't you the special boy? 😂

  • @CloudCollapse

    @CloudCollapse

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why "lol"?

  • @gmbrusselsprout
    @gmbrusselsprout3 жыл бұрын

    "The deadliest Volcano to erupt in the 21st Century" *Knocks on wood. H A R D.*

  • @DoctorTauri

    @DoctorTauri

    3 жыл бұрын

    And keeps KNOCKING

  • @Norrsky

    @Norrsky

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yellowstone: "Did someone say something?"

  • @gmbrusselsprout

    @gmbrusselsprout

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Norrsky *N o O o O o O o*

  • @MeachPango

    @MeachPango

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah. I'd like to see it. I love in AZ which is siprisingky one of the safest places you can live when it comes to natural disasters.

  • @gmbrusselsprout

    @gmbrusselsprout

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MeachPango erm… you know you’re like on Yellowstone’s metaphorical doorstep, right?

  • @sirridesalot6652
    @sirridesalot66522 жыл бұрын

    I don't believe he was mentioned in this episode but one hero of the Krakatoa disaster was the lighthouse keeper. A huge chunk of coral demolished the lighthouse. The keeper lost his wife and son who had evacuated from the lighthouse earlier. Despite all that he used a stick and a lit lantern to continue to warn ships away from the rock. All that's left of that lighthouse today is the brick base. A new one was built a bit further away.

  • @applesandgrapesfordinner4626

    @applesandgrapesfordinner4626

    Жыл бұрын

    Poor man refuses to let grief keep him from saving other lives. RIP a king

  • @roryasrorri701

    @roryasrorri701

    8 ай бұрын

    Lighthouse keepers are dfferent breed

  • @laurencedelves

    @laurencedelves

    8 ай бұрын

    This man singlehandedly elevated my hopes in humanity

  • @slomorico8711
    @slomorico87113 жыл бұрын

    My grandmother told of this happening when she was a child, they heard it in eastern Oklahoma and wondered where the thunder was coming from. A week later it was in the news

  • @khairakhalila0110

    @khairakhalila0110

    2 жыл бұрын

    YO HOW OLD IS YOUR GRANDMA?

  • @slomorico8711

    @slomorico8711

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@khairakhalila0110 she died in 1979, was 109 years old

  • @rein_k.

    @rein_k.

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@slomorico8711 DAMN your grandma is older than the queen

  • @aaronlimeuchin7352

    @aaronlimeuchin7352

    Жыл бұрын

    @@slomorico8711 wow, your late grandma beats both my late great grandmother and my late grandmother. My great grandmother was 100 when she died in 2006, while my grandma (her daughter in law) was 84 when she died recently in January 2023.

  • @slomorico8711

    @slomorico8711

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aaronlimeuchin7352 mine was 109 when she passed in 79

  • @jacksone5856
    @jacksone58563 жыл бұрын

    Krakatoa is the real world mountain of "Its always the quiet one"

  • @christobalcolon6601

    @christobalcolon6601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Put jelly in your pockets because we're toast.

  • @captinnapkin0211

    @captinnapkin0211

    3 жыл бұрын

    him and Pompeii are so sus

  • @coltana5041

    @coltana5041

    3 жыл бұрын

    I bet you more than anything while your busy watching a quiet one a loud one will f*cking kill you! -George Carlin

  • @enricopozon8893

    @enricopozon8893

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. What can I say about it? I'm from the Philippines. We were hit by the erruption.

  • @Jiff321

    @Jiff321

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s the loud one 99.9% of the time.

  • @Jason-re4dw
    @Jason-re4dw3 жыл бұрын

    The fact the shock wave circled the earth 4 times is what I find most insane.

  • @bradhobbs6196

    @bradhobbs6196

    3 жыл бұрын

    At least no one heard it on the Moon. This time.

  • @tofu.x8428

    @tofu.x8428

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bradhobbs6196 or did they

  • @tofu.x8428

    @tofu.x8428

    2 жыл бұрын

    @gamingwith din its a joke i know that

  • @marko7654

    @marko7654

    2 жыл бұрын

    And it made the loudest sound ever heard on earth

  • @rattled1557

    @rattled1557

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tofu.x8428 *vsauce ost playing in the background

  • @ramonvalencia5719
    @ramonvalencia5719 Жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised that none of the major movie studios has ever made a big-budget film about this event. I've read some of the stories of witnesses and survivors, and they are absolutely epic.

  • @JennieKermode

    @JennieKermode

    9 ай бұрын

    They did. 'Krakatoa: East of Java' was a big hit in its day (and yes, Krakatoa is west of Java, but Hollywood doesn't really worry about details like that).

  • @UKfeath

    @UKfeath

    25 күн бұрын

    i was thinking this stared john wayne, but i was wrong. 'course, i was like 10 when i saw it.

  • @imanormie9007
    @imanormie90072 жыл бұрын

    "Most of the people thought krakatoa was extinct" *krakatoa didn't like that*

  • @Joe_Potts
    @Joe_Potts3 жыл бұрын

    This volcano will forever be stuck in my mind as Squidward yelling it. " *KRAKATOA!!!!* Tss."

  • @RobGradyVO

    @RobGradyVO

    3 жыл бұрын

    NO MERMAID MAN! IM CAPTAIN MAGMA!!

  • @user-zc2lt8ir1r

    @user-zc2lt8ir1r

    2 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    Turn off the television

  • @ATK10155

    @ATK10155

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank god I’m not the only one

  • @GalluZ

    @GalluZ

    4 ай бұрын

    Indonesian here, and I couldn't agree with you more 😂

  • @TwentyNinerR
    @TwentyNinerR3 жыл бұрын

    That moment when my great-grandma survived this and lived long enough to tell the story to my mom. She hails from a tiny village in a more remote area of Banten (the province where Tangerang and Merak is located today), which may contribute to her survival.

  • @gmbrusselsprout

    @gmbrusselsprout

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your great-grandma sounds like an absolute legend with an incredible life story to tell :D

  • @juddyyoutube

    @juddyyoutube

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is your mom still alive? It would be awesome if you recorded her telling the story and posted a video on KZread.

  • @TwentyNinerR

    @TwentyNinerR

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gmbrusselsprout I think so. She passed away back in the 80s, being a centenarian. Her tombstone states that she was born on 1883, but my mom quickly told me that she was born earlier than that (around 1878) due to her memory of the disaster.

  • @TwentyNinerR

    @TwentyNinerR

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@juddyyoutube Mom's alive and well, but she barely remembered any details of this because it's that distant

  • @gideonbenaya5094

    @gideonbenaya5094

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TwentyNinerR if your grandma tells people he is a prophet and was saved by the Archangel michael everybody would probably believes her😂😂

  • @bobbenson6825
    @bobbenson68252 жыл бұрын

    Simon Winchester's book "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded" is essential reading. It's a great read and one of my favorite non-fiction works.

  • @Susie_Floozie

    @Susie_Floozie

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hell, yes! I just recommended it, too. I found it at a thrift store and devoured this unexpected bounty. Winchester elevates the event far beyond the superficial "incredible boom/spectacular sunsets" overviews I'd read before.

  • @michaelverbakel7632

    @michaelverbakel7632

    Жыл бұрын

    There was a movie made in the 1960's called 'Krakatoa, East of Java' when it is actually west of Java between Java and Sumatra. So I guess the film's producers didn't know much about their Geography back then.

  • @kathrynronnenberg1688

    @kathrynronnenberg1688

    Жыл бұрын

    I love this book. I second your opinion.

  • @merriemisfit8406

    @merriemisfit8406

    Жыл бұрын

    I found a copy while sorting through my daddy's massive book collection. I think I read it in 2021. I decided to keep it in case I want to roll it back into my reading rotation again.

  • @1mimarin

    @1mimarin

    Жыл бұрын

    He also wrote The Surgeon of Crowthorne about William Chester Minor and his contribution to the OED. His books are fantastic

  • @myspacebarbrokenevermindif9892
    @myspacebarbrokenevermindif98922 жыл бұрын

    For another comparison, the Tsar bomb, the largest weapon humanity has created, is four times smaller than Krakatoa in terms of explosive power.

  • @heyking8583

    @heyking8583

    Жыл бұрын

    Does it enough to blow america

  • @granpappytom5540

    @granpappytom5540

    6 ай бұрын

    Largest weapon humanity has ever detonated. It was meant to be twice as powerful, and we can create far larger bombs today, it simply isn't practical.

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto3 жыл бұрын

    How is it that neither the director, producer, nor screenwriter of the 1968 disaster film "Krakatoa, East of Java" was aware that Krakatoa is actually west of Java?

  • @rachelciel3330

    @rachelciel3330

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait, they made a movie? Oh nvm, I just searched for it. An american movie, can't expect accuracy from them. It'd be crazy to have two deadly volcanoes that erupted in the same century on the east side of java.

  • @GeneralGrievous-1138

    @GeneralGrievous-1138

    2 жыл бұрын

    They did it on purpose, because they thought "east" sounded more exotic, because Americans

  • @Dfathurr

    @Dfathurr

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rachelciel3330 for the record, Tambora lies east of bali and of course, java

  • @lukepierce7731

    @lukepierce7731

    2 жыл бұрын

    It is if you go the wrong way.

  • @ra_alf9467

    @ra_alf9467

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dfathurr ah? Tambora is on Sumba island, east of Lombok, and Lombok is east of Bali

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын

    1:35 - Chapter 1 - The mighty mountain 5:25 - Mid roll ads 7:00 - Chapter 2 - The day the earth exploded 10:45 - Chapter 3 - The killer waves 14:15 - Chapter 4 - The loudest noise 17:50 - Chapter 5 - A very modern disaster

  • @PMickeyDee

    @PMickeyDee

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your effort is greatly appreciated

  • @boziewz6125

    @boziewz6125

    3 жыл бұрын

    Awwwww, the ramblings of a simonite 👌 wheres the memologist

  • @johannageisel5390

    @johannageisel5390

    3 жыл бұрын

    17:43 Zack Pinsent cameo appearance

  • @Grim_Concept

    @Grim_Concept

    3 жыл бұрын

    A hero among men 👏

  • @silvesterwisnu1865

    @silvesterwisnu1865

    2 жыл бұрын

    We salute you, sir.

  • @jamesthomas280
    @jamesthomas2802 жыл бұрын

    So late November of 2018, I was at Anyer (the beach that faces Krakatoa). We had a school retreat there as our last one before we graduated high-school. When we came back from winter break, the teachers told us that the villas we stayed at are gone, staff that we probably interacted with have passed away. It was a bone-chilling experience to think that if we were there no less then a month later, that would have been us too. We saw pictures and I remember a small-time band was preforming for some of the people there and the people recording the performance captured the sudden waves that battered the stage. One of the band member's body still hasn't been recovered. Living here is genuinely scary sometimes. We face a noticeable earthquake at least once a year. We had a period of time where three earthquakes happened in one week. So yea, it's kinda scary.

  • @michaelskoomamacher5652

    @michaelskoomamacher5652

    Жыл бұрын

    It's not a small band. The band "Seventeen" was one of the mainstream band at the time. That new year's eve concert (the footage you saw), the wave swept the whole band into the sea. Only the vocalist survived, the rest of his bandmates and his wife are lost to this day. You could say they switched genre to new wave wkwkwkwkwk

  • @appleandaria6947

    @appleandaria6947

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@michaelskoomamacher5652"new wave" 💀

  • @Marta1Buck

    @Marta1Buck

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@michaelskoomamacher5652I'm going to hell for laughing at this

  • @xyz7572
    @xyz75723 жыл бұрын

    “A cubic heck-ton” I really appreciate your way of measuring things, Simon 😂

  • @conman1495
    @conman14953 жыл бұрын

    Back in 8th grade, I wrote a 20 page paper about Krakatoa's eruption. It wasn't for my social studies/history class but rather for English, to prepare us, I guess, for the amount fo writing we would be doing in high school and college. I got a 95 on the paper and I never wrote another paper longer than 18 pages after that. I guess college decided to go easy on me.

  • @lbh002

    @lbh002

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! You had a tough middle school! But after you had been required to do 20, the rest is gravy. 18 pages? No problem! I was righting 20 pagers when I still had bald armpits!

  • @conman1495

    @conman1495

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@lbh002 yeah, the minimum for that paper was at least 15 pages. It could be about anything but the requirements were ridiculous for a middle school assignment. It was so long and complex compared to what else we had done that we had nearly an entire semester to work on it.

  • @NelidaUtuwatu

    @NelidaUtuwatu

    3 жыл бұрын

    High school always does that. "It wont be like this in college!!" Yeah. It was much easier. You government agents are so full of yourselves 🙄🙄

  • @gumpyflyale2542

    @gumpyflyale2542

    3 жыл бұрын

    What about the 1816 year without a summer ?

  • @fie97

    @fie97

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's ridiculous. I almost can't believe that lol. The longest i wrote in high school also for Indonesian language, but the teacher only asked us to write 10 pages. But again, it was high school.

  • @johnstevenson9956
    @johnstevenson99563 жыл бұрын

    Well, I'll never look at Edvard Munch's painting the same way again.

  • @hankhicks1108

    @hankhicks1108

    3 жыл бұрын

    "EEHH?"

  • @PaulVandersypen

    @PaulVandersypen

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had no idea the painting was related to something he heard and saw as a child, nor did I realize it was about Krakatoa. The things you learn from Simon...

  • @hauntedshadowslegacy2826

    @hauntedshadowslegacy2826

    2 жыл бұрын

    Every chance I get, I'm gonna tell people that the painting is of the aftereffects of krakatoa. It's too cool not to share.

  • @29jgirl92

    @29jgirl92

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that was so interesting, I'm glad it was included in this video!

  • @nutzhazel

    @nutzhazel

    2 жыл бұрын

    Back in 1983, we had a 100 year old memory stamp of Krakatao made by our Malaysian post office department. The event must had been recorded by the British colony at Malay Peninsular at that time too. I still have that stamp in my collection (including the latest cool Marvel's Avengers stamps collection).

  • @GeologyHub
    @GeologyHub3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine 45 (1980) Mount Saint Helens eruptions. And you’ve got (1883) Krakatoa. Even more impressive is that this volcano is a top candidate for an even larger eruption in 535 which caused “the worst year on the planet to be alive” via extreme weather events. It takes a lot of energy to form a 7 km wide caldera

  • @sekar9901

    @sekar9901

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine indonesian who experienced Tambora eruption in 1815 and Krakatoa in 1883. It's less than 100 years..

  • @girardamoyo
    @girardamoyo2 жыл бұрын

    I searched up Krakatoa because Chris Broad wouldn’t stop saying it on Trash Taste

  • @dendi9883

    @dendi9883

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which episode ?

  • @r3r3ch4n

    @r3r3ch4n

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which one-

  • @coolpenguin5355

    @coolpenguin5355

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dendi9883 2nd episode of 2nd season

  • @coolpenguin5355

    @coolpenguin5355

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@r3r3ch4n 2nd episode of 2nd season

  • @dialga4688

    @dialga4688

    2 жыл бұрын

    A man of culture

  • @L4r5man
    @L4r5man3 жыл бұрын

    3:12 "Leaving a vast depression where there had once been a peak". You're talking about my mental health aren't you?

  • @sicksadworld997

    @sicksadworld997

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was the only one.

  • @boziewz6125

    @boziewz6125

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very apt description of ptsd 👌😔

  • @biozin1706

    @biozin1706

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hopefully you’re okay now

  • @screwyourhandle

    @screwyourhandle

    2 жыл бұрын

    If you mean a peak in anxiety levels then yeah same here lmao

  • @arizonatsunami
    @arizonatsunami3 жыл бұрын

    YESSSSS!!! I was just thinking the other day “he’s done one on Tambora, how come he hasn’t gotten to Krakatoa?”

  • @Mr.Cerera69

    @Mr.Cerera69

    3 жыл бұрын

    I guess too many channels (i mean half of youtube) needs to be covered. That is why it took some time to make this video lol...

  • @johnharrop5530

    @johnharrop5530

    3 жыл бұрын

    He should of done the 535AD eruption of Krakatoa it was way more powerful than this wet fart the whole world was pitch black for a year and a half and fogged for 10 years after this was called the dark ages and caused a mini ice age ,google it

  • @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnharrop5530 535 ad eruption is not known completely. Some also say it was a volcano of Iceland.

  • @paulelverstone8677
    @paulelverstone86772 жыл бұрын

    I was fascinated with Krakatoa as a kid - with the numbers behind it - and in 2008 I was lucky enough to visit the site of the caldera and walk onto Anak Krakatau. It was a childhood dream fulfilled...

  • @re_nforce
    @re_nforce2 жыл бұрын

    I blame Chris Broad for this being in my feed.

  • @halfbl00d55

    @halfbl00d55

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @JezaLoki

    @JezaLoki

    2 жыл бұрын

    The abroad in Japan guy?

  • @thedarkfuhrer6023

    @thedarkfuhrer6023

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @Michael-zf1ko
    @Michael-zf1ko3 жыл бұрын

    I always found it crazy that it was an explosion so big that an island was blown up and the shockwave circled the earth 4 times.

  • @goodoldschool898

    @goodoldschool898

    2 жыл бұрын

    First time for man to record it.

  • @curtisthomas2670

    @curtisthomas2670

    Жыл бұрын

    What is even more insane is that the Russian Tsar Bomba, tested on 10/30/1961, the most powerful nuclr weapon tested to date had a blast wave that circled the earth 3 times and was 1/3 as powerful as Krakatoa and made up 1/10th of the total energy yield of all nuclr weapons exploded to date and was 10 times the energy of all explosves used in WWII... and they left out a component so as to reduce radiation fallout from the test which would've double the yield.

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    😜

  • @CyberspacedLoner
    @CyberspacedLoner3 жыл бұрын

    I still remember learning about this large volcanic eruption from a documentary movie stored on VHS Tape I borrowed from my local middle class suburban public school library in the early 1990s

  • @robertraymond762

    @robertraymond762

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy how free and open information is now, compared to then. I would be a completely different person if the internet hadn't come into existence.

  • @stewartmcmanus3991
    @stewartmcmanus39912 жыл бұрын

    I've seen Anak Krakatoa twice. Nearly 10 years ago or so. A Scots guy we were on a cruise ship with got up early for a smoke and phoned our cabin for me to come up on deck about 5 am. The ship was dead silent, just the sea rippling past as we crept slowly by the smoking mountain. An eerie and awe inspiring sight I shall never forget. Thank you for that Pat. The second time was mid-day and the Captain of another ship brought it to every one's attention so not quite so dramatic.

  • @jakehorsburgh2878
    @jakehorsburgh28782 жыл бұрын

    Pyroclastic flows for 65km is unfathomable. Like I’ve drove for that long and imagining a burning hot cloud of ash and death behind there the whole time is simply mind boggling

  • @Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective

    @Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah Pyroclastic flows are incredibly dangerous and in fact Krakatoa's eruption was the first time we learned they could even cross the ocean. Apparently it does causing the water underneath the pyroclastic current to evaporate into steam which the surge cloud can then carry across the ocean. It's terrifying.

  • @Shane-bz1sy
    @Shane-bz1sy3 жыл бұрын

    “Giant horseshoe of explodey death” - Simon

  • @rainesbobo

    @rainesbobo

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL....Loved that

  • @mightybeanstick9872

    @mightybeanstick9872

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not to mention 'cubic heck-ton'

  • @adamloverin231

    @adamloverin231

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lots of quotables on this one. Good stuff.

  • @61rampy65

    @61rampy65

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@adamloverin231 Like using the term "gigantic-er".

  • @Drforrester31
    @Drforrester313 жыл бұрын

    I did a presentation for a college geology class on Krakatoa, and I think my favorite part was coming up with analogies for how loud the final crack was. Clearly you guys were having fun doing the same thing

  • @scottydu81

    @scottydu81

    2 жыл бұрын

    Shut up and push the button

  • @LandonStevens
    @LandonStevens2 жыл бұрын

    Out of this entire episode the thing that most impressed me is Simons use of the Canadian ‘eh?’ In the proper context

  • @Rammstein0963.
    @Rammstein0963.2 жыл бұрын

    The scary thing? Supposedly some newspaper journalist had a dream that inspired him to write a short fiction piece for his paper. Not too long after he was informed that he had almost perfectly described the eruption of Krakatoa, from a dream he had, the day of the event....from *clear across the planet.*

  • @CallistaZM

    @CallistaZM

    Жыл бұрын

    ooo links to more info? curious about this

  • @Ultimaton100

    @Ultimaton100

    Жыл бұрын

    Sounds like the disaster novel “Futility, or Wreck of the Titan,” a fictional story about a large British ocean liner named S.S. Titan marketed as “unsinkable” and not carrying enough lifeboats sinking on her maiden voyage after colliding with an iceberg. It was published in 1898, 14 years before the sinking of R.M.S. Titanic.

  • @cunard61

    @cunard61

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Ultimaton100 Remarkable too that the maiden voyage of the fictional S.S. Titan also took place in the month of April, and the fictional ship also side swiped an iceberg on it's starboard side, just like the real ship 14 years later.

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    Planet?

  • @CallistaZM

    @CallistaZM

    Жыл бұрын

    @@simpleman5688 yes planet meaning Earth, the guy was on the other side of the world from where the eruption happened, nowhere near it and yet had a dream about it

  • @KSWfarms
    @KSWfarms3 жыл бұрын

    This is the volcano that get hella interested in volcanoes in general. And to think Anak is one of the fast growing volcanoes in the world and almost in a constant state of eruption. It's almost like people were thinking 'we're safe now' and Krakatoa's like 'Hold my lava!'

  • @redbarchetta8782

    @redbarchetta8782

    3 жыл бұрын

    It killed again just a few years ago.

  • @rwboa22

    @rwboa22

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@redbarchetta8782 yet like The Terminator, it'll be back.

  • @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@redbarchetta8782 it mourned over the death of it's mother Krakatoa who collapsed after the eruption.

  • @rwboa22

    @rwboa22

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 let alone it's ancestor ("Ancient Krakatoa") from c. 416; Lang and Verlaten Islands north of both Anak Krakatoa and Rakata Island (the remnant of the 1883 eruption) being the remnants of the ancient island whose eruption was about as powerful as Tambora's 1815 eruption.

  • @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    @wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rwboa22 the eruption is said to had happened in 536ad that caused mysterious weather events in Europe and Asia

  • @ComaDave
    @ComaDave3 жыл бұрын

    For a few weeks after Mounts Unzen and Pinatubo erupted in 1991, we had some unbelievable sunrises down here in Australia. I used to walk eastwards before dawn towards the railway station to catch the train to Melbourne, where I worked. There was a period of a few days where Venus was low in the east, ahead of the rising Sun. Not a cloud in the sky, and it blazed like a ruby. Redder than Mars could ever be.

  • @andyjay729

    @andyjay729

    3 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in San Diego, and I remember Pinatubo sunsets.

  • @goodoldschool898

    @goodoldschool898

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dave, sounds unreal!

  • @oomay1925
    @oomay19252 жыл бұрын

    I was watching trash taste podcast and Chris wouldn't shut up about this volcano and now it's in my reccomended lmaoo

  • @razormaw

    @razormaw

    2 жыл бұрын

    Abroad in japan enjoyer ay

  • @charamia9402
    @charamia9402 Жыл бұрын

    I've heard tidbits about Krakatoa before, but this left me mouth agape just trying to comprehend the extent of it. Death toll aside, the fact that the soundwave was baromethically measurable around the globe - four times, nonetheless! How far away it was audible is staggering, and that its gasses gave visual effects in Oslo, inspiring my countryman Munch to paint Scream. It's incomprehensible, unimaginable.

  • @lilgnomey
    @lilgnomey3 жыл бұрын

    Alice Springs represent! I learned about this in Indonesian classes at school in Alice. It’s just devastating to think that if the eruption blast itself didn’t kill people, the sound wave probably would have. 😢

  • @goochfitness26

    @goochfitness26

    3 жыл бұрын

    Facts basically it’s like breaking the sound barrier but wayyyyy worse

  • @ignatiusryd2031

    @ignatiusryd2031

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indonesian here. Historical records from that eruption time (both from Dutch and Indonesians) are saying that the ones who kill most of the victims are the giant tsunami wave that were emerged seconds after the biggest blast happened. The shockwave from the blast itself did not posses juge problem since crews from Dutch ships that were sailing around the volcano during that time (which also record about the eruption) survive the blast only with hearing problems. The the aftermath of the disaster itself also claims more victims since its the colonial govt at that time only gave help to the Dutch survivors and largely ignoring the locals.

  • @victoriajeanleslie3116

    @victoriajeanleslie3116

    3 жыл бұрын

    right!?! i mean if a whales song can collapse your lungs and/or rupture blood vessels in your brain then it seems likely that people died from Krakatoa's soundwave. I imagine it would be fairly a instantaneous death

  • @gemfyre855

    @gemfyre855

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've read the boom was even heard in Perth which is even further away than Alice (I think).

  • @bisantianr9405

    @bisantianr9405

    2 жыл бұрын

    Indonesian, more importantly, a person living in Tangerang represent! Guess what? I would've died during the event of Krakatoa (spelled Krakatau here) 😌😂

  • @bubbafontleroy
    @bubbafontleroy3 жыл бұрын

    “Debris was thrown 24 km into the sky” Jeeeeeeesus Christ

  • @ErnestJay88

    @ErnestJay88

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's almost the edge of space, maybe some small rocks are thrown 100 KM up to the sky and ended orbiting the earth.

  • @Mamorufumio

    @Mamorufumio

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ErnestJay88 i wouldn't be surprised if some peices of the island ended up in orbit for a short time before falling back to earth

  • @boziewz6125

    @boziewz6125

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ErnestJay88 very much agree, not far out of the realms of reality to be believable. How long they would orbit for is debatable, or if they left the gravitational pull completely 🤔 Just think, there could be peices on the moon, or even Mars? Unlikely but not impossible.

  • @Drforrester31

    @Drforrester31

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not quite to do with distance, but there's a great old picture of a man standing next to a massive chunk of coral that the eruption had broken off the sea floor. It's just insane how much force the earth unleashed over those few days

  • @RevBoose

    @RevBoose

    3 жыл бұрын

    'Twas truly an earth-shattering kaboom!

  • @stephenphillip5656
    @stephenphillip56563 жыл бұрын

    At 8 years old (1963) I received the Boys Wonder Book of Nature as a Christmas present. In that was a dramatic account of the Krakatoa explosion & tsunamis. Vivid, stylised pictures of a towering wall of water sweeping all before it fired my interest in these events which continues to this day. I had read that Krakatoa's explosion was the loudest sound ever heard but you brought to my notice something else, that barometers recorded the pressure pulse of the event. You live and learn...

  • @harevaden
    @harevaden Жыл бұрын

    The weird thing about this, is that us Indonesians didn’t really learn about this in school. There was just these 2 lines from our geography class ‘krakatoa was the largest volcano eruption. The sound was heard up until xxx km away’. Nothing about the tsunami or the damage that it caused to the civilisation at that time. I was always questioning about that as a kid😂

  • @ninjaswordtothehead
    @ninjaswordtothehead3 жыл бұрын

    In fairness, that level of loudness was probably what dude was thinking when he wrote that stuff about Gabriel and his horn.

  • @SP_3333

    @SP_3333

    3 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @andyjay729

    @andyjay729

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe he was inspired by legends of the eruption of Santorini in Greece, the volcano which wiped out the Minoan civilization and may have also inspired the legends of Atlantis. That was also a huge blast (between VEI 6 and 7), and may have been heard in present-day Israel.

  • @RolandDenzel
    @RolandDenzel3 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid they played disaster and survival movies on Christmas Eve for some reason. I first learned of Krakatoa that way, but without this level of detail. Very good video, Simon!

  • @altarriq

    @altarriq

    3 жыл бұрын

    Old mayan calendar milking programming

  • @girlgamergear3260

    @girlgamergear3260

    3 жыл бұрын

    The film is East of Java.

  • @RevBoose

    @RevBoose

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@girlgamergear3260 Which is navigationally incorrect. As one can find on the Wikipedia entry (or see on a map), "Famously, the movie's title is inaccurate: Krakatoa actually is west of Java, but the movie's producers thought that "East" was a more atmospheric word, as Krakatoa is located in the Far East."

  • @girlgamergear3260

    @girlgamergear3260

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RevBoose Yup... badly titled, but still fun.

  • @alancharlton7892

    @alancharlton7892

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Steve Boose: You can see Anak Krakatao when on a ferry crossing between Merak Jawa Berat & Lampung Sumatera Selatan. 2 of my friends died in the Tsunami on 24th December 2018, Christmas Eve. The most publicised video of the event.

  • @Mike-tg7dj
    @Mike-tg7dj2 жыл бұрын

    Claude Monet has paintings that captured those sunsets. The volcanic activity of the last several years has produced some spectacular in our time as well. Degas also has paintings that reflect the volcanic activity of that period.

  • @JennieKermode
    @JennieKermode9 ай бұрын

    My great grandmother was born a couple of years after the eruption and remembered beautiful sunsets throughout her early childhood in England.

  • @aaronpescasio
    @aaronpescasio3 жыл бұрын

    Didn't know the Krakatoa eruption inspired Munch to paint The Scream lmao

  • @2l84t
    @2l84t3 жыл бұрын

    I remember when Mt. St. Helens erupted. It sounded like the horizon roared.

  • @soakupthesunman

    @soakupthesunman

    3 жыл бұрын

    I lived in Vancouver, about 300 KM away, and I heard 2 loud booms.

  • @andyjay729

    @andyjay729

    3 жыл бұрын

    I just recently moved to Seattle. That's something to think about (especially with Mt. Rainier right on the horizon).

  • @l.scales7516
    @l.scales7516 Жыл бұрын

    Edvard munch ( spelled wrong) artist of ' the scream ' shows his actual reaction to the eruption when it's effect was felt & then later, after the sky darkening in that direction( I don't recall what bridge he was on, but it was like a golden gate, Brooklyn, London style bridge) when the sound & earth shock hit they were deafened, the bridge danced like a hammock of steel cables hit by a baby grand piano! some were tossed from the bridge, but managed to hang on. he did many many versions, he was attempting to display the entire surreal experience of his eardrums exploding & feeling that the vibration was turning his body & brain to mush, like his skin was melting, the heat increased so much so fast ! it was night turned to day & afterwards, a blackout cloud of ash rising above the horizon, because it was so far away it's point & his location were as far apart as if they were 2 corners of a equal sided triangle, mostly area covered by water, carrying the vibrations & ash uncontained by a buffer of soil between them!

  • @dragonlover7196
    @dragonlover7196 Жыл бұрын

    for reference: it's theorized that the shockwaves produced at the epicentre of krakatoa's 1883 eruption would have been over 300db. at that point, it's far exceeded what we can even comprehend as sound, instead manifesting as a shockwave so powerful, it would annihilate everything in its proximity.

  • @seankelly9292
    @seankelly92923 жыл бұрын

    I still remember reading about this volcanic eruption in a book I read in like the third grade and I thought to myself: damn, must’ve been a big mountain

  • @vanderpraast4938

    @vanderpraast4938

    3 жыл бұрын

    58 years before this volcano , theres tambora isnt far away from krakatoa 10x more destructive, have u read bout this?

  • @seankelly9292

    @seankelly9292

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@vanderpraast4938 it was in the video, I was just reminiscing about when I was little

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert29743 жыл бұрын

    13:00 "No records exist if wether or not this totally not made up story ever successfully got him laid." This is the reason i keep coming back to all of Simon's channels. He keeps history fresh!:-) 😹 🖖

  • @29jgirl92

    @29jgirl92

    2 жыл бұрын

    This makes me realize that throughout history, people have mostly been the same as they are today!! I just know theres a guy in a bar somewhere right now telling a story just as ridiculous!

  • @lestatsgames7426
    @lestatsgames7426 Жыл бұрын

    I’m old, and I always think of reruns of Time Tunnel and their visit to Krakatoa. The ending mentioned 200 foot tsunamis. As an adult, I’ve heard about an earlier eruption in the 500s or 600s.

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    Doug and Tony 👍🏿

  • @retriever19golden55

    @retriever19golden55

    8 ай бұрын

    The Time Tunnel episode made a huge impression on me!

  • @apolatyne_decova
    @apolatyne_decova2 жыл бұрын

    Took me about 4+ years to finally notice that Krakatoa is english for Krakatau for some reason I always thought it was an active volcano from somewhere in Hawaii or in the Southern parts of America

  • @lisaray7141
    @lisaray71413 жыл бұрын

    A video on Iceland's newest volcano, Geldingadalur, would be really cool. No, it's not causing devastation, but it's certainly one volcano that people can get up close and personal with.

  • @stephenphillip5656

    @stephenphillip5656

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, one moron has been filmed climbing up the cone with lava pouring down the slope towards them recently. They wanted to get their selfie 🙄. Darwin Awards special mention...

  • @lellow19
    @lellow193 жыл бұрын

    "A giant horseshoe of explodey death" 😆

  • @nmr6988
    @nmr69882 жыл бұрын

    Krakatoa is my favorite volcano. I know Tambora was bigger and that more people ultimately died from its aftereffects, but Krakatoa killed more people immediately, which in my estimation makes it the more deadly and spectacular eruption.

  • @SunayanaSB1998

    @SunayanaSB1998

    Жыл бұрын

    True. The mountain itself blew up

  • @hikkisummers4798

    @hikkisummers4798

    Жыл бұрын

    Damn, you are disturbing, you like it because it killed people? You must be a pyschopath

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    Numbskull

  • @Hannah_Em
    @Hannah_Em2 жыл бұрын

    At my uni in the UK, outside the physics department's main lecture theatre there's a trace reading of air pressure from just after the eruption, showing the spikes as the sound of the explosion rang around the globe & caused measurable spikes on the graph

  • @paulmorgan1009
    @paulmorgan10093 жыл бұрын

    Krakatau is the more appropriate name. And the boat shown stranded is not in Batavia or on Java at all. It’s the Gunship Berouw which was in Lampung Bay off Telukbetung, Sumatra. It was carried up the Koeripan River where it was marooned more than 3km from the sea. The entire crew was lost. It’s wreckage was visible for almost 100 years.

  • @bambangbudiprayetno2701
    @bambangbudiprayetno27012 жыл бұрын

    There's actually some traditional poems or songs at some few district on Indonesia that function as an "early warning signs" about natural disasters. In Sumatera for example, there's an old and traditional poem called "Teteu Amusiat Loga" who commonly sang when children playing hide and seek, this poem/song actually talk about earth quake and tsunami. Other district also have their old manuscript or old story about natural disasters that mostly tell as a poem, song and lullabies. The most famous one was "Serat Jayabaya" or Jayabaya's Prophecy that predicted future natural disasters along with their "early sign". This just show how love and caring our ancestors for their future generations, that sadly many of us starting to forget in this modern era.

  • @gothicanimegirl44
    @gothicanimegirl442 жыл бұрын

    God i can't imagine being the lone two survivors. I really want to know their story.

  • @HotRefuse
    @HotRefuse2 жыл бұрын

    Solar panels lose a lot of efficiency when smoke is blotting out the Sun. We've seen it in California with the wild fires. I'm thinking a Krakatoa type eruption or worse could really hurt energy grids that rely on solar for a long time.

  • @xu6941
    @xu69412 жыл бұрын

    The fact that i got suggested this video after watching "Guy says Krakatoa before destroying toilet" makes me all the more interested.

  • @wancoet
    @wancoet2 жыл бұрын

    Movie title: 'Indonesian Volcanoes" Credit title: Toba: mother of all volcanoes Tambora: missing kingdom Krakatau: water bender Sinabung: ash thrower Merapi: pyroclastic blower Ijen: blue flame

  • @conanthegamer
    @conanthegamer11 ай бұрын

    I was doing an essay/presentation of Edgar Allan Poe for my American Lit class. Came across a letter that he had written to a friend. He talked about a year without summer. Stated looking into it and found out that he was talking about the effects of that volcano.

  • @FourOf92000
    @FourOf920002 жыл бұрын

    15:10 the entire _Norham Castle_ log entry for that day: A fearful explosion. A frightful sound. I am writing this blind in pitch darkness. We are under a continual rain of pumice-stone and dust. So violent are the explosions that the eardrums of over half my crew have been shattered. My last thoughts are with my dear wife. I am convinced that the Day of Judgement has come.

  • @noahacosta3966
    @noahacosta39662 жыл бұрын

    Still won’t stop Chris Broad from climbing it

  • @PlaceHolderHandleOrWhaver
    @PlaceHolderHandleOrWhaver Жыл бұрын

    “I felt a great unending scream piercing through nature.” God damn, how chillingly poignant.

  • @SatyreIkon
    @SatyreIkon2 жыл бұрын

    I remember reading about Krakatoa in a book on volcanoes as a kid. They mentioned many of the facts in this video there, but now, about thirty years later, I am finally able to put them into perspective. Damn! 😳

  • @BastardKitty
    @BastardKitty2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve always been obsessed with the sound from this volcano blast. Your video describing the sounds and listing the comparisons WAS AWESOME! Best video I’ve seen on the subject. Thank you!

  • @randomsandwichian
    @randomsandwichian3 жыл бұрын

    Just a small correction, "anak" means "child" in Indonesian and Malay, the son or daughter part is translated as "lelaki" ♂️ or "perempuan" ♀️. In hindsight, glad we may not need to see something like this happen in our lifetime, or in 50 years.

  • @CharDhue

    @CharDhue

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tambora in 1800s and krakatoa in 1900s Nobody know what future hold

  • @alancharlton7892

    @alancharlton7892

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pilipine people are the same group as Indonesian & Malays. The difference is with which European Nation took control during their colonising era. There are many Khmer words throughout the region.

  • @erika002

    @erika002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Jacob-Pogicat I'd rather prefer if you said Filipino rather than Tagalog but that's...fine I guess? (nah) P.S. I'm aware about the confusing designation of our National Language like "N.L. = Filipino =Tagalog?" Just to clear up and this is a very short summary, Filipino is every dialect and language (borrowed) that exists in PH, including borrowed words from foreign languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, and to some extent Arabic & Japanese. I just always just say "Filipino" because it's better than saying "Tagalog", and Tagalog isn't even the largest dialect group used in PH as a whole, and generally speaking almost every dialect here in PH has Malay origins.

  • @tabitooth2012

    @tabitooth2012

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't jinx it, that damn mountain a f**king troll

  • @Ujick46

    @Ujick46

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why if he said "the child of krakatoa" it'll sound weird for me?

  • @susanrobinson910
    @susanrobinson9103 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for giving the comparisons as to just how loud the eruption of Krakatoa was. I knew it was loud and huge, but I had no idea how loud it was until this video! Great upload, as always!

  • @BigKeith510
    @BigKeith5103 жыл бұрын

    The fact that this event was so loud is simply amazing

  • @adameckard4591
    @adameckard4591 Жыл бұрын

    I first learned about Krakatoa from an episode of the TV show The Time Tunnel in the mid sixties, then the movie Krakatoa East of Java in 1968.

  • @WTH1812
    @WTH18123 жыл бұрын

    Excellent recounting of the after affects of the blast. ... One of the things geologist later figured out was how the pyroclastic flow from Krakatoa literally crossed the ocean on a layer steam to leave massive ash deposits several meters thick on nearby islands.

  • @danielneves6855
    @danielneves68552 жыл бұрын

    After the explosion, it likely propagated as a shockwave from the spot. I mean if the vibration propagates faster than sound speed, there is a sharp change in pressure variations, meaning it stops behaving like regular, smooth waves. Soundwaves are small-amplitude waves that propagate at sound speed and leaves the state of the medium unchanged with consistent wave amplitude and frequency. Shockwaves however, create enormous changes in air pressure instantaneously and these violent changes in pressure peak into shock fronts or shockwaves. Shockwaves and soundwaves aren't exactly the same thing, but basically a shockwave ocurrs when the source of the sound is moving faster than the wave's speed of propagation. If the amplitude of the soundwave gets too high it steepens into a shock front. It usually is around 194 decibels in the air due to it's density. In the Beirut explosion all you can hear is the whoosh sound from the air getting powerfully pushed outwards from the explosion. The british crew on the Norham castle ship 65km from Krakatoa were probably hit with the soundwave at it's strongest. Can't imagine how it was. Saying it was the final judgment day is something.

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass85732 жыл бұрын

    It's crazy to think that people who were around for WW1, may have experienced this worldwide event.

  • @hawkersaurus
    @hawkersaurus2 жыл бұрын

    What I learnt from this video: Humans had a lot of things I considered "modern" in 1883: weather stations, barometers etc

  • @kepperMN

    @kepperMN

    Жыл бұрын

    Plus The Telegraph and Steam Powered Ships!

  • @7411y
    @7411y3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine living through a catastrophe so huge that your entire community changes religions

  • @bradley163
    @bradley1633 жыл бұрын

    Simon's beard has grown at an EXPLOSIVE rate.

  • @barrywerdell2614

    @barrywerdell2614

    3 жыл бұрын

    He uses it as a Tax Write off, classifying it as a "Wildlife Sanctuary"

  • @steve_bal4
    @steve_bal42 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I read an excellent book many years ago about Krakatoa, by another Simon (Winchester), which recounts the history, geography, geology and worldwide social impact, both preceding and following the eruption, and I highly recommend it to those who find this fascinating (and still read).

  • @jlzp7048
    @jlzp70482 жыл бұрын

    I've remembered a documentary about Indonesia and almost at the end until this: The Indonesian man: this is the most volcano activity in Indonesia *points at mount/volcano Merapi The interview guy: so... what's the last activity? The Indonesian men: yesterday :)

  • @jlzp7048

    @jlzp7048

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jellyfishi_ oof you have a depression? If you have then that's bad, but I hope you recovered fast

  • @bungan7197

    @bungan7197

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just watch it, it from BBC. The Great Asian Railway Journeys

  • @dindachancamui3508

    @dindachancamui3508

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're right lol I live in the povince where Merapi is in and I can convince you that it's erupting twice to thrice every year... however Merapi being very active most probably (I hope) wont cause a very big explosion like Krakatoa

  • @brainnotfound337
    @brainnotfound3373 жыл бұрын

    2 of the biggest volcanic eruptions in modern history happened in Indonesia. And both happened less than 100 years apart. Someone could be alive when Tambora exploded that also lived through the Krakatoa. And that someone could live their entire lives in the same island when both exploded (Java), which they would have been only about 700 km away at the furthest from each blast sites. And people today constantly complained that they're living in the worst period in history....

  • @muselibarnless

    @muselibarnless

    3 жыл бұрын

    tambora is not on java its on nusa tenggara,but the impact would be felt

  • @brainnotfound337

    @brainnotfound337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@muselibarnless that's true, though the islands were right next to Java, so i believe the Javanese people would have felt the aftermath of the explosion

  • @SaoGage
    @SaoGage2 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the best channels on KZread. Captivating with just himself and his voice. That’s talent. I’ve also studied this eruption in some depth and still learned a few things from this video. Awesome job!

  • @Inucroft
    @Inucroft2 жыл бұрын

    This timed way to well with Trash Taste ep100, where the guest just kept talking about Krakatoa

  • @Nahella

    @Nahella

    2 жыл бұрын

    Chris is the only reason I decided to click on this video tbh

  • @edelweissurya6409

    @edelweissurya6409

    2 жыл бұрын

    might as well invite Ollie for insight prespective

  • @The_Storm_That_Is_Approaching
    @The_Storm_That_Is_Approaching2 жыл бұрын

    I got here from a guy saying it before destroying a toilet.

  • @jasepoag8930
    @jasepoag89303 жыл бұрын

    Wow, it sounds like Krakatoa was ALMOST as loud as your average TV commercial.

  • @theinfernoburns

    @theinfernoburns

    2 жыл бұрын

    What a dad joke

  • @christopherwills731
    @christopherwills7313 жыл бұрын

    This video was just epic. I loved all the knowledge that went into it. Especially the painting near the end. I had seen it before but never actually knew the story behind it. Now I have fun facts to share with my friends. I thank you sir.

  • @oenjielsvansoekamadjoe7405
    @oenjielsvansoekamadjoe74052 жыл бұрын

    22:15 ... I remember that night because I was on a ferry to cross the sunda strait from merak to bakauheni. it was like a fireworks from the far (I thought it was a celebration from a party by the beach, took a photo of it). the sea was unusually calm with no wind and waves (night crossing is usually windy with quite wavy). the water was almost half height of my car tire when I embarked from the ferry but I thought it was high tide. my cell phone got no signal and I was driving in a rush to bandar lampung just to find a hotel and have rest. only in the morning I saw the news.

  • @MEGAbrandon281
    @MEGAbrandon2813 жыл бұрын

    That level of power in the sound waves defies logic 😳

  • @jean-paulaudette9246
    @jean-paulaudette92463 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Simon! Krakatoa has been a hobby of mine for a few years. Nice to see this!

  • @mlc1610
    @mlc16102 жыл бұрын

    Krakatoa is when the most patience teacher in the school get angry.

  • @ministermacro
    @ministermacro3 жыл бұрын

    How much damage do you want? Krakatoa: Yes.

  • @madladwill3218
    @madladwill32183 жыл бұрын

    I swear this mans beard is getting bushier in every upload

  • @Mochrie99

    @Mochrie99

    3 жыл бұрын

    I only discovered his channels recently. I watched one early video pre-beard and it didn't even LOOK like the same person, LOL! I can't believe it took me so long to discover these. Such amazing fascinating vids and his presenting style is fantastic ("spontaneous pants-crapping" for the win, LOL)

  • @williamjeffersonclinton69

    @williamjeffersonclinton69

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Mochrie99 try Thoughty2 as well. His early videos he looked like Malcom in the Middle before growing out the Moustache.

  • @SP_3333

    @SP_3333

    3 жыл бұрын

    I like beards. Looks soft.

  • @ChristiaanHW

    @ChristiaanHW

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SP_3333(allegedly) his beard is so soft because he uses "beard blaze", his own brand of beard oil.

  • @lbh002

    @lbh002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SP_3333

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter80803 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Simon. You're mini-documentaries are concise and very informative. You check your facts and present them much better than any university professor I've heard lecture. Cheers -- W

  • @kattkatt744
    @kattkatt7443 жыл бұрын

    Simon is really good at telling a story. I kew about krakatoa from before, but I still felt captivated. Also the last place I expected to see Zack Pinsent and props for actually pronouncing Edvard Munchs last name correctly.

  • @punditgi
    @punditgi3 жыл бұрын

    Very well done video. You almost feel like you are a witness to the devastation. Your presentation skills have reached a whole new level. Also appreciate your ditching of Imperial to communicate with a global audience. Bravo on all fronts, Simon! 🙂👍