From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters-both manmade and natural. Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both historical and more recent, that have impacted the human race. Gathered from more than sixty locations, JacQues details the mayhem caused by a range of events that include an F5 tornado in Oklahoma, a typhoon in China, a blizzard in the United States, the flood of 1889, the sinking of the Titanic, and the crash of Flight 111. A compelling collection of stories, Catastrophic Companions narrates the reality of extreme events and communicates not only the power of Mother Nature, but of the perseverance of the human race to endure these tragedies for which often there is no preparation.

Catastrophic Gumbo

PART TWO: THE INTERNATIONAL SERIESBy Alvin JacQues

TRAFFORD PUBLISHING

Copyright © 2011 Alvin JacQues
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4269-6913-3

Chapter One

The Dynamic Volcano Called Krakatoa

On August 26, 1883 was the beginning of the greatest volcano eruption in the world. The volcano's name is Krakatoa, the volcano sits along the pacific coast lines of Sumatra Indonesia, which is among 60 miles of active volcano territory, the size of Krakatoa was a combination of 3 volcanoes put together inside of one big one.

When the volcano Krakatoa exploded it was the most enormous and loudest eruption sound in recorded history, it was heard over 3000 miles away, the sound of the eruption reached other countries far away such as Europe, Africa, various parts of Asia and others.

The before effects and the aftermath effects of the volcano eruption can have extreme occurrences on land and sea for days, weeks, months, and years, the magma from inside the volcano creates lava flow and lava is made of materials of magnesium, iron, aluminum, and silica sulfites, after an eruption the lava cools and turns as hard as a rock, here's some food for thought the Hawaiian Islands were built from dynamic measures of melted lava. Throughout history, and lava can reach a temperature of up to 2000 degrees.

At several thousand feet beneath the surface of the volcano the ocean water is 1000 times hotter then the atmosphere on land, the extreme hot ocean water from deep below can trigger a volcano to erupt, 80 percent of volcano eruptions happen under water, due to heated temperature from deep below the ocean. Several days before Krakatoa exploded the tremors of land was getting worse everyday things were confused and out of balance the animals in the village of Sumatia were behaving very strangely, animals can detect danger faster than human beings.

Krakatoa is 25 miles away from Sumatia on Sunday August 26, 1883 every second 1 million cubic yards of hot lava came down the mountain from the volcano. Throughout this story Krakatoa will explode 3 different times on three different occasions.

The first eruption started a massive Tsunami that flooded 165 villages throughout Indonesia, A tsunami has 2 types of effects, the first is the reverse effect then the forward effect, that tsunami destroyed the villages within 20 minutes then it disappeared back to the sea. Volcano eruption causes tsunami to happen, due to atmosphere changes and mud slides.

In less than one hour the volcano's smoke and ash was 30 miles into the sky, the eruption filled the air with electricity, the ash debris was a St. Elmo's fire falling and forming in the air, the ash was thick and heavy, like mud.

Several hours later Krakatoa exploded again, the second eruption lasted for most of the day of August 26, 1883 then the ash continued to grow more rapidly, Krakatoa was the loudest sound ever heard from a volcano eruption.

The next day on August 27, 1883 Krakatoa was entering a different phase much more extreme than before, the super explosion is about to happen. At 10:02 AM Krakatoa exploded for the third time it was a massive revelation, the sound of the eruption traveled over 3000 miles, Krakatoa's third explosion was the loudest super bang in history.

Moments later no one expected a second tsunami that was bigger than the first tsunami, the waves in the pacific ocean were over 100 feet high the third eruption was a combination of fire, water and massive mud slides of pyroclastic flows and lahars effects.

The pyroclastic flow temperature was above 1300 degrees traveling beyond 100 miles per hour, the toxic fumes and gases in the air is call the greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide effect.

The pyroclastic flow was hauling large rocks at the size of a house, the various debris of a volcano eruption can burn and destroy the respiratory system until death occurs.

The explosion of a volcano eruption is call a wallop and a wallop is what creates the tsunami which includes the pyroclastic flows and lahars effect.

Krakatoa killed 36,000 people and destroyed 165 villages and 12 square miles of island turf completely disappeared, the Krakatoa eruption lasted for 2 days.

One year later dead bodies were still floating inside the pacific and Indian oceans from the massive killing of Krakatoa, many dead bodies were being found along the coast lines of Africa which is miles and miles away.

44 years later in 1927 ANAK Krakatoa is the son of big daddy Krakatoa, since 1883 a new volcano was born, ANAK Krakatoa is still young the volcano is just a teenager with a volcano temper but volcanologists are keeping a close eye on ANAK because the young volcano is unstable, to start with the unstableness is what starts the land slides.

The location of the territory is 10 times the population compared to 1883 many people live there and now it's a beautiful resort area inside Indonesia.

Around the world volcanic ash will block the air flow in airplanes in flight, the ash is made of broken glass, which stops the air flow which causes the jet engines to short out and stop working.

Krakatoa was the greatest eruption in the history of the world, which took 36,000 lives.

Volcano in Martinque

In 1902 on the island of St. Pierc Martinque in the Caribbean, the island had 28,000 people living there before the volcano eruption, after the eruption only two people survived one survivor was trapped in jail and the other survivor was inside an underground tunnel which means the aftermath effects of the volcano's consequences it killed 27,998 people.

The 10 aftermath effects of Volcano Eruptions

1. A pyroclastic flow is a thick cloud of blinding hot ash, rock and other debris that can move at a speed up to 100 miles per hour.

2. The lahars concept is a giant mudslide of extreme hot lava rock, ash and gases up to 2000 degrees.

3. The greenhouse concept is fatal volcanic toxic gases inside the air.

4. The lightening effect concept is deadly electrical currents that travel inside the ground and inside the air.

5. Volcanic ash is deadly chips of glass which contains poisons and uranium.

6. The starvation effect concept means the soil on the ground is totally dead nothing will grow which means there will be no food to eat, and people perish.

7. The carbon dioxide effect concept is deadly invisible fumes in the air which leads to death. 8. The Tephra block effect concept is large heavy clusters of various volcanic debris. Which are totally deadly. 9. The trigger effect concept means a volcano eruption can create or trigger various other consequences such as tsunami, earthquake or wind storms.

10. The Strato shields concept mean multiple aftermath circle surround the volcano of magnetic forces. Which are deadly.

Volcano tremors is vibrations that shake the ground before the eruption happens.

Leading Seismologists know an earthquake is impossible to predict correctly, they do not understand what make them start or stop, it's a mystery phenomenon of planet earth.

Every year earthquakes rule the planet, seismologists have reported more than 35 thousand earthquakes occur yearly around the world.

America spends the most money worldwide in research to predict natural and supernatural cataclysmic and catastrophic phenomenon.

A mega thrust earthquake of a...