Anak Krakatau volcano: Satellites get clear view of collapse

[nitpicker]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46743362

Anak Krakatau volcano: Satellites get clear view of collapse

By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent

7 hours ago

There is now some very good optical satellite imagery of the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano, which generated the devastating tsunami on 22 December. Poor weather conditions over Indonesia's Sunda Strait had frustrated spacecraft that view the Earth in the same type of light as our eyes.

But the team at Planet has managed to find windows in the cloud. Pictures from its Dove and SkySat platforms show the extent of the volcanic cone's failure.

It is easier to appreciate now how the island has been reshaped. What was once a crater at the summit of a 340m-high edifice has been completely broken open to form a small bay.

Indonesia's disaster agency says more than two-thirds of Anak Krakatau's volume (150-170 million cubic metres) is missing. Much of it is assumed to have slipped into the sea in the colossal landslide that produced the tsunami.
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SkySat was responsible for the picture at the top of this page, taken on Wednesday (2 January).
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[hunter]

1. Wow...

No wonder there was a tsunami.