The Devastating Long Term Effects of Krakatoa

What happens to the entire world when a super volcano pops?

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[AdoomJames]

Another person from New Zealand here, also pointing out that Mt Tambora is in Indonesia. The Taupo super volcano(a lake now) eruption, in New Zealand was ~25000 years ago.

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2:05 - Chapter 1 - Previous eruptions
3:55 - Chapter 2 - Prelude
5:40- Chapter 3 - Eruption
7:55 - Chapter 4 - Immediate effects
9:00 - Chapter 5 - Long term effects
9:50 - Chapter 6 - Visual effects
10:30 - Chapter 7 - Volcanic winter
11:55 - Chapter 8 - Floods, droughts & freeze
14:10 - Chapter 9 - Warmer oceans

[chancehulan]

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[sifrost]

I really enjoyed that one, I recall being fascinated by the idea of a whole island been blown apart by a volcano when I first heard about it in school.
And have been researching it for quite some time, there is even evidence that one of Krakatoa previous eruptions split east and west java apart, leaving the Sundar straights.

This one volcano has a fascinating history to it, that we are still now getting to the bottom of.

Thanks Simon for the wonder video!

Si

[JonNogo]

I've always wondered what it's like to be Japanese and have every explosion that occurs ever compared to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

[devastator]

I love reading and learning about Krakatoa. It’s my favorite eruption and I’m amazed we are still learning stuff to this day about it.

Love your content Simon! Keep it up!

[readycheddar]

Krakatoa is usually what happens when I get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and I hit my foot on the corner of the bed.

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Me: “Oh! Simons voice is always good for calming me down to sleep!”
Simon: “Humanities problems are going to be a lot bigger than that”
Me: *Now paranoid* “I cannot sleep until I study all volcanoes and their eruption patterns…”

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[danielmcdowell]

Tambora's eruption was big but not in New Zealand.
However one of the biggest ever eruptions did happen in New Zealand. The super volcano that is Taupo. That eruption makes Tambora look like a fire cracker going off in comparison.
Lake Taupō is in a caldera created mainly by a supervolcanic eruption which occurred approximately 25, 600 years ago. It has a surface area of 616 km2 (238 sq mi), and a maximum depth of 186 m (610 ft).

[deadkemper]

i've been to mt st helens...incredible visit if you pick a clear day...very interesting to see what a huge volcano can actually do in the flesh so to speak

[rench.]

Slightly correction : Mount Tambora was is in Indonesia too just like Krakatoa not in New Zealand and it was not eruption on 1812 but in 1815.

[Zonda]

Perfect timing for me to fall asleep to my nightly binge of your videos

[gtvchuck]

Thanks for this. You always hear about the climatic effects of the 1815 Tambora eruption and even Pinatubo, but never Krakatoa. I knew there had to be a dramatic effect but I never heard of what they were until your video.

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[djdrack]

Some volcanos just have complete badass names:
Krakatoa, Santorini, Kilauea, Pinatubo, Toba.