Reports say it sent a plume of ash several kilometres into the air, with a boom that could be heard from far away.
“Please stop making that booming noise and go to bed, Anak Krakatau. It’s late and we’ve already got plenty of other things to worry about,” one person wrote on Twitter.
“Krakatau is erupting nonstop for 2 hours,” wrote another. “I live in bogor and I can hear the noises as clear as everybody else hear. This feels like a nightmare.”
Volcano tracking site Volcano Discovery called it a “large magmatic eruption”, at least the biggest since 2018, which caused a 150m-high tsunami wave that hit an uninhabited island. That boom was so big, the Anak Krakatau lost two-thirds of its height.
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