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Volcano on the Indonesia island of Rakata? in the [Sunda Strait]? that suffered an massive eruption on August 26, 1883 at 10.02 am local time. It was the most severe volcanic explosion on Earth in modern times (Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6, equivalent to 200 MT of TNT?) more than 35,000 people were killed by the resultant tsunami waves.


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Edited November 20, 2001 11:29 pm by Css (diff)
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