Posted on 12/23/2018 7:26:49 AM PST by NRx
Hundreds of people have been killed and injured after a tsunami struck tourist beaches and coastal areas around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on Saturday night.
Officials said at least 222 people were dead and 843 injured after a volcanic eruption thought to have been caused by an underwater landslide sent waves surging towards the coastlines of Java and Sumatra islands.
Indonesia’s disaster management agency said 28 people were still missing and warned the death toll could rise further as not all affected areas had been reached.
The worst affected area was the Pandeglang region of Banten province in Java, which encompasses the Ujung Kulon national park and popular beaches, the agency said.
Television footage showed roads blocked by debris from damaged houses, overturned cars and fallen trees. The water washed away an outdoor stage where a local rock band, Seventeen, was performing, killing at least one musician. Other people who had been watching the band on the beach were missing.
“The water washed away the stage which was located very close to the sea,” the band said in a statement. “The water rose and dragged away everyone at the location. We have lost loved ones, including our bassist and manager … and others are missing.”
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Prayers for those in the area.
I think they reversed the arrow of causality.
Just saw a video of a wave hit a beach concert. No warning, comes through the stage and into the crowd. Nightmarish stuff.
https://youtu.be/stn6QwhUhh4
Here you go.
an underwater landslide
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produce standing waves (stand above the nominal water surface) which continue to travel and break only on hitting land higher than they are, while travel at around 600 mph. See 1958 Lituya Bay, Alaska (1,758 ft high tsunami ) - for more information and an actual video by the survivors.
Most tsunamis are caused by fractures (uplifts or subsidence) - these are surface waves which break on hitting land
87% Muslim.
“87% Muslim.”
And 100% children of God.
Still remember seeing the movie “Krakatoa: East of Java” from when I was a kid.
Volcanos suck... being in the area when they explode sucks worse.
In’shallah, obviously. The Will of Allah.
No.
100% created in the image of God.
One is only a child of God by adoption through faith in Christ.
Wow, note to self, avoid beaches in Indonesia during December! 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of 26 December was an undersea mega-thrust earthquake that registered a magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia! Indonesia confirmed 130+k deaths and the Indian Ocean Basin totaled between 124k-228k deaths, 14 countries, in this third largest historical earthquake.
I mourn for the tourists, particularly the hot ones.
lol
How weird. On Thursday I just finished up reading “Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded” by Simon Winchester on scribe. Doesn’t sound like this one was as big as the BIG one. i.e. I know the back story on the explosion ;-)
“And 100% children of God.”
Not necessarily so.
Lots of traveling surfers in that area. Sad.
Yeah! Let’s go exploring all those seashells and old pirate ships with loot and so on ... hey what’s that funny roaring sound and why does the wave on the horizon look so big?
Actually, in a landslide into the water or under the water the sea does not go out like a subsidence/uplift quake, the sea looks normal except for the 1000-2000 high standing wave rushing at you.
It may be the Azores but one of the Islands off the coast of Spain or Portugal has enormous cracks which are slowly moving seaward. At any moment they could just give way and cause a landslide of cubic miles of material into the Atlantic. This standing wave would travel at 600 mph and be many thousands of feet high, only stopping when it smashed into the Appalachian mountains - everything else from Maine to Florida east of the Appalachians would be destroyed down to bedrock ...
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