There was no earthquake shaking as a warning, only the wave coming ashore that immediately began impacting people and property. There is this note from the story, “Actually, the tsunami was not really big, only 1 meter (3.3 feet),” said Prasetya, who has studied Krakatoa. “The problem is people always tend to build everything close to the shoreline.”
One death is too many, and the fact that this one did not kill over 200,000 people is little comfort to those who lost loved ones.
