Read and write the word for the definition in the text. The eruption of the Krakatau on a small island located in the middle of the Sunda Strait in August 1883 was, in many aspects, the first global catastrophe. The news about the eruption, its following tsunami and the more than 36, 000 victims travelled fast thanks to the recently installed worldwide telegraphic network.The final explosion of Krakatau produced the loudest sound ever recorded in modern history, heard on over 10% of Earth’s area. Reports of a distant cannonade or what seemed to be gunfire were reported from Australia and the island of Mauritius, more than 4, 650km distant from the erupting volcano. Krakatau was the first scientifically well recorded and studied eruption of a volcano, from the very beginning to its disastrous ending. A sudden outbreak of a volcano