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Wreck of Mighty Titanic was discovered on September, 1985

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In 1985, after 73 years of sleep on the bottom of a deep dark sea, the wreckage of the RMS Titanic was discovered by a US-French rescue team led by Robert Baller. This process was funded by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Titanic hit an iceberg 375 miles south of Newfoundland on 15 April 1912, sinking on its first voyage, resulting in the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew, including the ship's captain. It does not have enough lifeboats for everyone on board. Of the 2224 passengers, only 705 escaped from RMS Carpathia . The Titanic was the greatest ship in coasting conditions and had numerous security highlights like waterproof compartments and radios. Sinking in just 2 hours and 40 minutes, not all rafts were topped off and not all could be propelled appropriately due to the posting vessel. Survivors' records of the boat's sinking show that the Titanic had incompletely or totally split in two and that the gigantic boat was thought to have gone

Krakatoa- The stand-alone eruption

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The 1883 volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait started on the evening of Sunday, 26 August 1883, and crested on the late morning of Monday, 27 August 1883. Over 70% of the island of Krakatoa and its encompassing archipelago were decimated as it collapsed into a large crater. This volcanic eruption was one of the deadliest and most dangerous volcanic occasions in written history. Its blasts were so loud that they were heard 3,110 kms away in Perth, Western Australia, and Rodrigues close to Mauritius, 4,800 kms away. This eruption and its consequence tsunamis caused around 36,417 deaths. Huge extra impacts were additionally felt around the planet in the days and weeks after the eruption of Krakatoa liquid magma. Extra seismic movement proceeded until February 1884. Reports of seismic action after October 1883 were later excused by Rogier Verbeek's examination concerning the eruption. Early Seismic Activities A long time before the 1883 ejection, seismic action around th