Natural Disaster · 1883

The Loudest Sound Ever Recorded — Krakatoa, 1883

The sky turned blood red over London, New York, and Tokyo in the autumn of 1883. It stayed that way for two years. Five thousand kilometres away, a volcano in Indonesia had just exploded.

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