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What unusual atmospheric effect did the 1883 Krakatoa eruption produce worldwide for several years?
The Krakatoa stratospheric sulfate aerosol cloud produced exceptionally vivid red and orange sunsets across the globe for more than two years. The 1883 sunsets are credited with inspiring Edvard Munch's *The Scream* (1893, set in twilight Oslo) and were extensively documented in Royal Society's official 1888 Krakatoa report by the watercolourist William Ashcroft.
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The Loudest Sound Ever Heard On a Monday morning in August 1883, a volcano in the Sunda Strait made a noise that was registered, four thousand eight hundred kilometers away, as gunfire.
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