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Anak Krakatau: Volcano's tsunami trigger was 'relatively small'

The scale of the tsunami hazard from volcanoes that collapse into the sea has been underestimated.

That's the conclusion of a new analysis of satellite pictures of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau showing the aftermath of its flank failure last December...

The study concludes that the volume of material that slipped into the water was actually relatively small...

And yet it generated destructive waves around the Sunda Strait as big as those expected from a much larger event...

More than 400 people died in the disaster on 22 December 2018; a further 7,000 were injured and nearly 47,000 were displaced from their homes...

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More info/pics on this in the article linked...

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