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There were a couple of bits of stuff that the doco brought up that I had either forgotten, or was previously unaware of. I did read the big monograph on the eruption, oooh, something like fifteen or sixteen years ago, but they've got new evidence on the massive levels of pyroclastic flow debris around Krakatau on the seabed, and the first time I read the monograph, I didn't notice the bit about there having been some 2000 deaths from hot pyroclastic flows hitting the mainland 40 km away, having traveled that distance _over water_ at about 150kph. Of course, when the original monograph was written, the concept of the pyroclastic flow was yet to be coherently elucidated.