Indonesia Tsunami and Quake Devastate an Island, Killing Hundreds

[UglyCasanova]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/world/asia/indonesia-tsunami-sulawesi-palu.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/karman_mustamin/status/1046045005616492552?s=21


Holy crap, I missed this until now. Watch the vid in the twitter link that’s some scary shit.

 

[thilanliyan]

Phew, that's crazy. Article says the tsunami warning system didn't work because the earthquake took out cell phone towers.

 

[Ichinisan]

Damn. I hope it's not as devastating as it was in 2004.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Death toll rises above 800

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[sdifox]

Read a headline that said it's going to be thousands

 

[brycejones]

Not tweet worthy.

 

[Thebobo]

Holy crap when is humanity going to learn to shoot landscape videos horizontally.

 

[purbeast0]

Wow that is really sad. I had not even heard of this until this morning.

 

[dainthomas]

Crazy that the death toll will certainly be higher than the Sumatra earthquake, and yet we're hearing basically nothing.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Crazy that the death toll will certainly be higher than the Sumatra earthquake, and yet we're hearing basically nothing.

I don’t think so, the tsunami from that one killed a few hundred thousand. Hopefully I’m right.

 

[dainthomas]

I don’t think so, the tsunami from that one killed a few hundred thousand. Hopefully I’m right.

The one you're thinking about was in 04. The Sumatra one was in 09 and killed at least a thousand IIRC, and I remember much more media coverage about it.

I'm hoping it's the fact that a lot of info hasn't come in yet, and not our ridiculous political BS distracting from it.