MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2018 07 Angry ‘Child of ’ volcano rumbles on Anak Krakatoa, the “child” of the legendary Krakatoa, is said to be the cause of the tsunami in

he volcano that triggered a deadly tsunami in In- Tdonesia late Saturday emerged from the sea around the legendary Krakatoa 90 years ago and has been on a high-level eruption watchlist for the past decade. Anak Krakatoa (the “Child of Krakatoa”) has been particularly active since June, occasionally sending massive plumes of ash high into the sky and in October a tour boat was nearly hit by lava bombs from the erupting volcano. Experts say Anak Krakatoa emerged around 1928 in the caldera of Krakatoa, a volcanic island that violently erupted in 1883. With subsequent lava flows it grew from a submarine setting to become a small volcanic island, with the cone now standing at an altitude of around 300 metres (1,000 feet) above sea level. Since its birth, Anak Krakatoa Anak Krakatoa emerged from the ocean a half century after Krakatoa’s deadly 1883 eruption has been in a “state of semi-con- tinuous eruptive activity”, Cas said the latest event ap- The island is part of the Ujung ries of powerful explosions that People survey outside the flooded shopping mall growing bigger as it experienc- peared to be “a relatively small Kulon National Park, “demon- were heard in Australia and up es eruptions every two to three explosive eruption” but could strating on-going evolution of to 4,500 kilometres away near The tsunami triggered by quakes and eruptions. years, volcanology professor Ray then have triggered or coincided geological processes”, since the Mauritius. the eruption killed more than The archipelago nation has Cas from Monash University in with a submarine event like a Krakatoa eruption, UNESCO says The massive cloud of ash 36,000 people in one of the nearly 130 active volcanoes, Australia told AFP. landslide or earthquake, causing on its World Heritage site listing plunged the area into darkness world’s worst natural disasters. forming part of the Pacific “Ring “Most of the eruptions are rel- the deadly tsunami. for the area. for two days. The dust gave Indonesia’s proximity to the of Fire” -- an arc of intense seis- atively small on the scale of ex- No one lives on the island, but When Krakatoa erupted on rise to spectacular sunsets and junction of three continental mic activity that stretches from plosive eruptions ... and there’s the peak is popular with tourists August 27, 1883 it shot a column sunrises around the world the plates, which jostle under im- quake-prone Japan through also eruptions that produce lava and is a major study area for of ash more than 20 kilometres following year and disrupted mense pressure, makes it par- Southeast Asia and across the flows,” he added. volcanologists. (12 miles) into the air in a se - weather patterns for years. ticularly vulnerable to earth- Pacific basin. Shocking video shows tsunami rip through stage as band performs AFP | Carita, Indonesia Beach Resort on the western wearing a green shirt with the tip of when the wall of band’s Seventeen logo stitched ramatic video posted on- water hit. into the chest. Dline showed the tsunami On the video, fans can be seen “Andi (drummer) and Her- that struck Indonesia smash- clapping and cheering before man (guitar) and Ujang (crew) ing into an open-air concert, a wave rips under the stage, have not been found. Please hurling members of a pop band sending the band members and pray so that my wife Dylan (Dy- from the stage and slamming their equipment crashing into lan Sahara) will be found soon. into the audience. the men and women dancing “The rest are thankfully safe Riefian Fajarsyah, lead vocal- at the front. although suffering from inju- ist of the band “Seventeen” later The shocking video then sud- ries and broken bones. Please posted an emotional video to denly stops. Fighting back tears pray so my wife Dylan, Andi his 260,000 Instagram follow- and wiping his eyes, Fajarsyah and Herman and Ujang can be ers in which he said the group’s said two more band members, a found soon.” bassist and road manager were crew member and his wife were Seventeen posted earlier this Residents queue to board a Hercules aircraft, as they are being evacuated after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the city, killed. still missing. week on their Instagram page at Mutiara airport SIS Al-Jufrie, Palu The band were playing Satur- “We lost our bassist Bani that they would be playing at day night to a large crowd in a and our road manager Oki,” he the Tanjung Lesung Beach Re- marquee at the Tanjung Lesung said in the video, in which he is sort from December 21 to 23. Indonesia regularly hit by quakes, tsunamis

Reuters | people along the Indian Ocean nami of up to 10 metres that coastline, more than half of destroyed dozens of villages tsunami killed at least 222 them in Aceh. and killed around 300 people. Apeople on the Indonesian 2005: A series of strong 2016: A shallow quake hit islands of Java and Sumatra and quakes hit the western coast of the Pidie Jaya regency in Aceh, injured hundreds following an Sumatra in late March and early causing destruction and panic underwater landslide caused April. Hundreds died in Nias as people were reminded by the by a volcanic eruption on Sat- Island, off the coast of Sumatra. devastation of the deadly 2004 urday, the disaster mitigation 2006: A 6.8 magnitude quake quake and tsunami. No tsunami agency said. hit south of Java, Indonesia’s was triggered, but more than Indonesia sits on the seismi- most populated island, trigger- 100 were killed by fallen build- cally active Pacific Ring of Fire ing a tsunami that smashed into ings. and is regularly hit by earth- the southern coast, killing near- 2018: Major quakes hit Indo- quakes. Here are some of the ly 700 people. nesia’s tourist island of Lom- major quakes and tsunamis in 2009: A 7.6 magnitude quake bok, killing more than 500 peo- recent years: struck near the city of Padang, ple, mostly on the northern side 2004: A massive 9.1 magni- capital of West Sumatra prov- of the island. tude quake on the western coast ince. More than 1,100 people 2018: More than 2,000 people of Indonesia’s Aceh province in were killed. were killed by a powerful earth- northern Sumatra on Dec. 26 2010: A 7.5 magnitude quake quake and tsunami that hit the triggered a tsunami that struck hit one of the Mentawai islands, city of Palu, on the west coast of People drive past a washed up boat and collapsed buildings in Palu 14 countries, killing 226,000 off Sumatra, triggering a tsu- Sulawesi island.