The Darkest Decade of the Dark Ages
From 535 to 544
7 min readOct 25, 2020
After a few years of increasingly severe earthquakes and tidal waves as the land slowly bulged upward in a low dome, in early 535, a major eruption of Krakatoa in the Sundra Straits became a natural fireworks display of epic proportions. It was possibly one of the worst natural disasters in the geological prehistory of the entire planet. The magnificent spectacle released an…
