The entire southwest flank of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano appears to be missing, new images from a satellite radar show. THE explosion of the volcano triggered massive landslides on December 22, creating a tsunami that killed over 420 people.
The images come from the JAXA ALOS-2 satellite and then analyzed by the Japanese Geoinformatics Authority, according to Associated Press.
Normal satellite photos of the volcano were not possible due to the continuous dust cloud cover in the region. First image taken two days before the explosion on August 20, 2018 and the second two days later on December 24, 2018.
Looking at the photographs, it seems that the entire southwestern part of Anak Krakatau disappeared, probably from a flood-like landslide caused by the continuous eruptions. The following tsunami erupted along beaches along Indonesia's Sunda Strait, killing hundreds.
As the pictures show, Krakatau is much smaller than before landslide. The concentric circles are the waves that are removed from the island of Anak Krakatau.
Anak Krakatau began to show signs of intense activity in July, but in the past two weeks it was particularly active.
For the record, in 1883 there was another big explosion, sending waves across the planet, not once but four times in a row. The explosion affected the global climate and caused reductions in temperaturewinelet all over the world.
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