Part extract. Although no one is known to have been killed as a result of the initial explosion, the tsunamis it generated had disastrous results, killing some 36,000 people and wiping out a number of settlements, including Telok Batong in Sumatra, and Sirik and Semarang in Java. An additional 1,000 or so people died from superheated volcanic ash which literally rushed across the surface of the ocean. Ships as far away as South Africa rocked as tsunamis hit them, and the bodies of victims were found floating in the ocean for weeks after the event. There are even numerous documented reports of groups of human skeletons floating across the Indian Ocean on rafts of volcanic pumice and washing up on the east coast of Africa up to a year after the eruption.
more interesting reading;
http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/history/1883.shtml
Now underwater out of sight.
Narration: Two kilometres below our feet is a hot boiling Hades of magma – and all around us are what are known as vents - gaping holes through which superheated steam and deadly hydrogen sulfide gas shoot free of the earth’s crust.
more at; http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2008/02/14/2160790.htm
Imagine if one of these vents erupt like Krakatoa.
Forget about AGW, the center of the Earth is a power house waiting to explode.
Rudd and Labor can't talk themselves out of problems they behave themselves into.
