Anak Krakatau Volcano

Anak Krakatau Volcano:

Anak Krakatau’s deadly 2018 collapse was preceded by years of unnoticed ground movement, now exposed through satellite radar analysis.

• Anak Krakatau (meaning “Child of Krakatau”) is a stratovolcano located in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
• It is a part of the Ring of Fire, a chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.
• It emerged from the sea in 1927 and is the offspring of the catastrophic Krakatoa eruption of 1883.
• Over the following years, frequent strombolian eruptions resulted in growth of the volcano.
• It sits above multiple magma chambers.
• It has been the site of frequent eruptions. It has had at least nine episodes of activity since 1963, most lasting less than one year.
• On 22 December 2018, an eruption led to the collapse of the southwestern flank of the volcano, with the resulting landslide generating a tsunami that caused devastation along the nearby coasts of southern Sumatra and west Java.