Krakatoa's volcanic child throws a tantrum

A volcanic eruption has been captured by drone. Photo / Twitter, @EarthUncutTV

Aerial footage of an eruption yesterday at Anak #Krakatau - explosions like this were happening every 25 minutes or so for entirety of our stay. Some of those lava bombs were size of trucks! #volcano #Indonesia pic.twitter.com/k6PDshn8CE

— James Reynolds (@EarthUncutTV) August 13, 2018

The Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia is shooting boulders out of its crater like fireworks.

The "lava bombs" (yep, that's a real thing) hurled into the sky at the weekend were as big as trucks, according to James Reynolds, a natural disaster chaser who shot a video of the eruption.

Anak is only a century old - not even a blip on Earth's geological timeline - but it's already become one of the most-watched volcanoes in the world. That probably has to do with its lineage; Anak Krakatau is, geophysically speaking, Krakatoa's volcanic child.

Krakatoa lives in infamy for its 1883 eruption. Between the pyroclastic flow, earthquakes, ash fall and tsunamis, the volcano killed tens of thousands of people that year. The sound of the eruption was heard in Australia.

The eruption nearly destroyed the volcano entirely. What spawned from the ash and debris was a new volcano, given the name Anak Krakatau, or "child of Krakatoa." It literally rose up out of the ocean in 1927 and has been erupting continuously in one form or another since then.

Reynolds said explosions like the one in the video were happening approximately every half hour while he was there. The video was captured with a drone.