Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — The Noise of the Javan Volcano. [ARTICLE]

The Noise of the Javan Volcano.

Reports collected since the memorable eruption of Krakatoa, in August, 1883, have shown that the explosions were heard over a circle of thirty degrees radius. A more astonishing announcement still is now made by Dr. F. A. Forel, the well-known Swiss physicist. He has learned that On the day of the great eruption startling subterranean noises resembling the roiling of distant, thunder w r ere heard in Cai-man-Brae, a small island ih the Caribbean Sea, near tho antipodes of the volcano of Sunda Strait. These sounds can not readily be attributed to any neighboring volcanic disturbance, and Dr. Forel is forced, to infer -.that they may have been propagated thropgh the entire diameter of the earth, i ’