More than 1,400 people were injured, and thousands of residents had to move to higher ground, with a high-tide warning extended to Wednesday. "There are several locations that we previously thought were not affected," said Yusuf Latif, spokesman for the national search and rescue agency. The vast archipelago, which sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", has suffered its worst annual death toll from disasters in more than a decade. "Since Anak Krakatau has been actively erupting for the past several months additional tsunamis cannot be excluded," said Dr. Prof Hermann Fritz, from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Anak Krakatau is the island that emerged from the area in 1927, and has been growing ever since.

Source: The Star December 25, 2018 04:45 UTC