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malaise

(269,005 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:18 AM Oct 2018

Experts are saying to add liquefaction to the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia

Bodies are showing up everywhere and they are just reaching areas like Donggala.
This is a major disaster.

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Experts are saying to add liquefaction to the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia (Original Post) malaise Oct 2018 OP

Yeah, last I saw death toll jumped from 400 to 800... Wounded Bear Oct 2018 #1

Plenty more malaise Oct 2018 #3

Such natural phenomena can be horrific. MineralMan Oct 2018 #2

Nature is both beautiful and cruel malaise Oct 2018 #4

Wounded Bear

(58,660 posts)

1. Yeah, last I saw death toll jumped from 400 to 800...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:21 AM

Oct 2018

there will be more, I'm sure.

malaise

(269,005 posts)

3. Plenty more

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:24 AM

Oct 2018

MineralMan

(146,315 posts)

2. Such natural phenomena can be horrific.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:23 AM

Oct 2018

That region is prone to such earthquakes and the tsunamis that follow. Sadly, people tend to build near the shoreline. I was horrified by the video footage I've seen of the tsunami.

malaise

(269,005 posts)

4. Nature is both beautiful and cruel

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:31 AM

Oct 2018

I love visiting beaches, but I have never wanted to own a house on a beach.
We have good friends who live on a cliff in Bull Bay. They have a majestic view, but the day we get a serious quake followed by a tsunami in the Southeast, they and their neighbors will crash into the Caribbean Sea.

The storm surge from Hurricane Ivan alone took out most of the beautiful homes a few miles down that coast.

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