Volcanic island Krakatoa exploded in 1883 with a force ten thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, creating the loudest sound ever recorded in human history.

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Volcanic island Krakatoa exploded in 1883 with a force ten thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, creating the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. The noise ruptured the eardrums of sailors forty miles away and was clearly heard by people over three thousand miles away in Australia, effectively acting as an apocalyptic jump scare for half the planet. The blast threw so much ash into the atmosphere that it lowered global temperatures, ruined harvests, and caused the sky to turn terrifying shades of blood red for several years. It casually highlights the terrifying fragility of human civilization, proving that our entire existence is essentially at the mercy of a giant, angry rock that occasionally decides to blow itself into oblivion