BPPT Radar Image Reveals the Southern Part of Mount Krakatau Children's Landslide
Indo Kanal . The Technology Assessment and Application Agency released a radar image that showed differences in the surface of Anak Krakatau seen from the air. The two images that compare the conditions on December 11 and December 23, 2018 clearly show a change in surface around 357 meters and 1,800 meters. It appears in the image that the southern or lower left of the image is gone. "This is evidence that there is an area lost or landslide to the sea, around 64 hectares," Widjo Kongko said on Monday (12/24/2018). Based on research conducted by French geologist Christine Deplus and researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Hery Harjono, the landslide in the south-southwest of Anak Krakatau could have triggered the tsunami. In his message on Sunday, Hery said that Anak Krakatau tends to grow to the southwest and that side is also steeper than others. "Of course this is a labile part and if it sags or landslides it certainly can trigger a tsunami,...