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Loudest sound in history is believed to be the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883. Physicists estimate the noise of that cataclysm at 190 decibels...
...world's most active earthquake belt some day next week (cf. "in islands northeast of Australia," July 11 & 12), the entry should be scratched. And I fail to see how even juicy journalism can construe as fulfillment of such a futile forecast a volcanic eruption at Krakatoa, or a quake in Japan. "Gosh, that's wonderful...
...Reuben Greenspan. Last month he told a newshawk that a conjunction of the moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...
Radio warnings, sent by the Dutch government, are now scurrying around the East Indies warning the Javanese and Sumatrans to beware Krakatoa. The small island volcano in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, is yeasting to explode again. Already it has drooled a small land mass into the adjacent water. At any time it may blow...