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**Volcano Assignment due Friday, June 1st:**
====Find a real life example of a type of volcano.==== ====Find your name on the right and post a picture with at least 5 pieces of information about your volcano.====

Include the type of volcano.
====Include the type of plate boundary the volcano exists on (divergent, convergent, hot spot...)==== ====Include which tectonic plates are involved with this volcano.====

Krakatoa
 * situated in the Sunda strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.

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 * The island is about 3 miles wide and 5.5 miles long (9 by 5 kilometers).
 * In 1883, the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa erupted with 13,000 times the power of an atomic bomb.
 * Killed over 36,417 people.
 * a volcano Produced the loudest sound ever heard from a volcano in modern days.
 * The eruption generated tsunamis 40m high that devastated nearby coastlines.
 * Recordings of atmospheric pressure at the time found that the shockwave created by Krakatoa had gone around the world seven times!

Type: composite volcano. Plate Boundary: Convergent.

Krakatoa lies along the convergence of the Indian-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a zone of high volcanic and seismic activity.

Eruption

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