Complex hazard cascade culminating in the Anak Krakatau sector collapse

On 22 December 2018, the western flank of Anak Krakatau collapsed into the sea of the Sunda Strait triggering a tsunami which killed approximately 430 people and displaced 33,000. Here, the authors show that Anak Krakatau exhibited an elevated state of activity several months prior to the collapse,...

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Main Authors: Thomas R. Walter, Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi, Felix M. Schneider, Diego Coppola, Mahdi Motagh, Joachim Saul, Andrey Babeyko, Torsten Dahm, Valentin R. Troll, Frederik Tilmann, Sebastian Heimann, Sébastien Valade, Rahmat Triyono, Rokhis Khomarudin, Nugraha Kartadinata, Marco Laiolo, Francesco Massimetti, Peter Gaebler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12284-5