Another amazing/frightening statistic is that pyroclastic flows killed people living 30 miles away over open ocean. If I was living that far away across an ocea

Another amazing/frightening statistic is that pyroclastic flows killed people living 30 miles away over open ocean. If I was living that far away across an ocean, I would have felt perfectly safe. It just boggles my mind that even at this distance Krakatoa was deadly.