{"id":12062,"date":"2025-05-08T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:05:22","slug":"anak-krakatau-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/anak-krakatau-volcano\/","title":{"rendered":"Anak Krakatau Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Anak Krakatau Volcano Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Anak Krakatau\u2019s deadly 2018 collapse was preceded by years of unnoticed ground movement, now exposed through satellite radar analysis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: 35px; font-style: inherit;\">About Anak Krakatau Volcano<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anak Krakatau (meaning\u00a0<strong>\u201cChild of Krakatau\u201d<\/strong>) is a\u00a0<strong>stratovolcano\u00a0<\/strong>located in the\u00a0<strong>Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a part of the Ring of Fire, a chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It<strong>\u00a0emerged from the sea in 1927<\/strong>\u00a0and is the\u00a0<strong>offspring of the catastrophic Krakatoa eruption of 1883.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the following years,\u00a0<strong>frequent strombolian eruptions<\/strong>\u00a0resulted in growth of the volcano.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It sits above multiple magma chambers.<\/li>\n<li>Anak Krakatau has been the\u00a0<strong>site of frequent eruptions.<\/strong>\u00a0Anak Krakatau has had at least nine episodes of activity since 1963, most lasting less than one year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>On 22 December 2018, an eruption<\/strong>\u00a0led to the collapse of the southwestern flank of the volcano, with the\u00a0<strong>resulting landslide generating a tsunami<\/strong>\u00a0that caused devastation along the nearby coasts of southern Sumatra and west Java.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Anak Krakatau Volcano FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong>\u00a0Where is Anak Krakatau volcano located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0It is located in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong>\u00a0The origin of Anak Krakatau is linked to the eruption of which volcano in 1883?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0Krakatoa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong>\u00a0Which type of volcanic eruption is commonly associated with Anak Krakatau?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0Strombolian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ie\/money\/other\/after-12-years-of-silence-this-volcano-triggered-a-devastating-tsunami\/ar-AA1ElQ0j\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anak Krakatau (meaning \u201cChild of Krakatau\u201d) is a stratovolcano located in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[457,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-12062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-anak-krakatau-volcano","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}