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packman

(16,296 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:18 PM Dec 2019

Krakatoa - The monster

When Krakatoa erupted, it sent more than 11 cubic miles of dust and debris into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun for more than three days. Nearly 4,000 miles away, ash fell on sailing ships. For more than two weeks, the sunlight was unable to fully reach to Earth. It created a lot of pretty sunsets but also caused global temperatures to drop. The eruption of Krakatoa was one of the most momentous volcanic eruptions in the modern era, whether it was remembered for destroying entire islands or its mood lighting

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Krakatoa - The monster (Original Post) packman Dec 2019 OP

last week i watched a documentary about this event CatWoman Dec 2019 #1

I've looked at the history of volcanoes and as I recall the list of Super Volcanic Eruptions, abqtommy Dec 2019 #2

Indeed, there are quite a few super calderas packman Dec 2019 #3

We have a Super Caldera here in New Mexico. These days it masquerades as a beautiful abqtommy Dec 2019 #5

The Year 1816 in the Northern Hemisphere is known as NCjack Dec 2019 #4

There was a dusting of snow SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #7

I believe Disaffected Dec 2019 #9

Yes! Thanks for the correction. The year without summer was NCjack Dec 2019 #10

Wasn't that the summer that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein? Wounded Bear Dec 2019 #11

I'm not sure. About that time. If it was, that time was NCjack Dec 2019 #12

I was right! Wounded Bear Dec 2019 #13

I read somewhere that its eruption.... lastlib Dec 2019 #6

It ruptured eardrums of sailors 40 miles away n/t TexasBushwhacker Dec 2019 #8

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)

1. last week i watched a documentary about this event

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:30 PM

Dec 2019

frightening.

Though it completely blew apart, another emerged from it.

And it's still bubbling!!!!

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

2. I've looked at the history of volcanoes and as I recall the list of Super Volcanic Eruptions,

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:34 PM

Dec 2019

the one long years ago at Yellowstone Park was number 2 or 3 on the list. (The lake there now is the
remains of the caldera) It's a fascinating and scary subject since we humans have absolutely no control
over it, unlike Global Warming that we can do a little to help.

packman

(16,296 posts)

3. Indeed, there are quite a few super calderas

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:43 PM

Dec 2019

Yellowstone and Siberia springs to mind. Wikipedia provides a list of them in almost every continent. But Krakatoa is the biggest and baddest in recorded history, so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

5. We have a Super Caldera here in New Mexico. These days it masquerades as a beautiful

Reply to packman (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 01:06 PM

Dec 2019

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mountain valley. Oh, and volcanic eruptions can be used to date things like the presence of humans
in a given area. Just to the west of Albuquerque are the remnants of an eruption that is dated to
50,000 years ago. This event is not described in any or the local Native/Earliest Peoples legends so the people obviously showed up later.

Signs of volcanic activity in New Mexico are plentiful with the existence of The Malpais/Badlands that consist of miles of hardened black lava. This is an interesting world we live on and I hope we can hang on to it.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)

4. The Year 1816 in the Northern Hemisphere is known as

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 12:48 PM

Dec 2019

"the year without summer."

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)

7. There was a dusting of snow

Reply to NCjack (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 15, 2019, 01:49 PM

Dec 2019

One night in June in London that year.

Disaffected

(4,569 posts)

9. I believe

Reply to NCjack (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 01:03 AM

Dec 2019

that eruption was Tambora (about 10 times as strong as Krakatoa). Krakatoa erupted in 1883.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)

10. Yes! Thanks for the correction. The year without summer was

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #9)

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 07:04 AM

Dec 2019

caused by Tambora.

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)

11. Wasn't that the summer that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein?

Reply to NCjack (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 08:49 AM

Dec 2019

NCjack

(10,279 posts)

12. I'm not sure. About that time. If it was, that time was

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #11)

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 10:33 AM

Dec 2019

very scary.

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)

13. I was right!

Reply to NCjack (Reply #12)

Mon Dec 16, 2019, 11:25 AM

Dec 2019

Literature also benefited alongside agriculture and transportation, with the dreary Summer of 1816 blamed for the conditions in Switzerland. These conditions led Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John William Polidori to spend much of a summer vacation indoors, entertaining each other with a contest to write the scariest story of all. The unseasonal weather conditions, along with this dare, led to the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus — as well as Polidori's novella The Vampyre, probably the first prominent piece of vampiric fiction, and Byron's long-form poem, The Darkness.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-year-without-a-summer-and-how-it-spawned-frankenst-5885668