Krakatau child generates flames and fireballs

Antara 26 Mar 08;

Serang (ANTARA News) - After having remained quiet for the past two weeks, Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait on Tuesday resumed its volcanic activity spewing glowing material and fire balls into the sky, an officer at an observation post in Serang said.

During the early morning of Tuesday (March 15), the volcano was five times recorded to have been shaken by volcanic tremors, to have produced explosiona and emitted glowing material, Jumono, the officer at the Anak Karkatau observation post in Pasauran village, Serang district, said.

To date, the weather in Banten province is mostly cloudy coupled with heavy rains which caused the Krakatau child condition was not clearly detected, he said.

In addition, waves averaged two meters in height coupled with high velocity wind occurred in Sunda Straits, Jumono said.

Jumono said, the recent tremor and explosion interval which was detected as a beyond normal activity compared with five years ago frightened the fishermen to go fishing.

"The Krakatau child which has generated flames coupled with loud sounds along Tuesday scared us to go nearer the waters as well as reduced our income," the Serang district fishermen, Dudung said.
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