[subterfuge]

Wow. The description doesn’t do this justice. Check out the pic at the link.

That said, I don’t understand how SUVs caused this? I guess nature happened.

[sgtyork]

No, no, no, it was the Rovian earthquake-volcano generator. Very signficant test.

[Cvengr]

from the story linked:

Although Ranongga escaped the fury of the tsunami, the seismic upheaval from the quake pushed out the shoreline by up to 70 metres, local resident Hendrik Kegala also said.

"Plenty big noise," he told AFP in the local pidgin dialect.

"Water go back and not come back again," he added, saying the whooshing sound of the receding water and the shaking from the quake occurred simultaneously.