KRAKATAU

Final Comment

We await the next eruption of Krakatau. The Southwest Volcano Research Center is predicting, with 97 percent probability, the eruption of Krakatau in 2002. Pre-eruption earthquake activity was reasonably strong in August 2002, although it has quieted down a bit at this writing. Subscribers to THC will be notified via eBulletin as soon as we get confirmation of any eruption of Krakatau.

The quote is from Catastrophe! by David Keys, a 120-minute video that can be obtained from PBS Family Video Productions, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407. The video is in the PBS Series entitled "Secrets of the Dead," and costs $25.00 plus S&H. (ISBN 07806-3190-0) [back]
Keys, D., 1999, Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World, Ballentine Books, New York, 343 pp. [back]
Zeilinga de Boer, J., and D. Sanders, 2002, Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions: Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton and Oxford. [back]
See Simkin, T., and L. Siebert, 1994, Volcanoes of the World, Geoscience Press, Inc., Tucson, AZ, p. 68. [back]

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