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Volcano Monitors Unite!

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Randall Gross2/25/2009 6:40:12 pm PST

re: #146 Summer

Simon Winchester: “The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 - Krakatoa”

I have the book and have read it. Really amazing and interesting story.

I was watching Discovery or History channel the other night and there’s a lot of speculation that it might have gone off with an even bigger bang in 385 AD, some minor but not conclusive proofs of that in Ice cores from both poles and historical docs. (It’s inconclusive because they can’t prove it was Krakatoa that deposited the ash, but some massive volcano near the equator did.)