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Indonesia tsunami: Death toll rises to 222, hundreds more injured

 

JAKARTA: Indonesia's disaster agency said 222 people were dead and hundreds more injured after a tsunami struck coastal areas around the Sunda Strait between the islands of Sumatra and Java on Saturday (Dec 22) night.

"222 people are dead, 843 people are injured and 28 people are missing," Indonesia's national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Sunday evening.

 

"This number is predicted to increase because not all victims have been successfully evacuated, not all health centres have reported victims and not all locations have got complete data."

He said that all the casualties were Indonesian citizens, with no foreign national casualties reported. The victims and damage occurred across four affected districts, namely in the Pandeglang, Serang, South Lampung and Tanggamus regencies, he added.

Hundreds of buildings were destroyed by the wave, which hit the coast of southern Sumatra and the western tip of Java about 9.30 pm (1430 GMT) following the eruption of a volcano known as the "child" of the legendary Krakatoa, national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
 

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/tsunami-indonesia-168-dead-beaches-volcano-krakatoa-11057318

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=4WEoMHe_fHA

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-tsunami-struck-indonesia-without-warning-n951416

 

 

 

"This was not a common tsunami," said Costas Synolakis, director of the University of Southern California's Tsunami Research Center. "This was a volcanic tsunami ... it did not rise to the level of triggering an alert. So from that point of view, the Tsunami Warning Centers were essentially useless."
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Lala81

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There was no earthquake. Suspected to be triggered by underwater landslide from the volcano.

Tsunami alert systems are triggered after noting an earthquake event.

This event was silent. 9+pm. 

According to a norwegian eye witness, there was just one bigger wave than normal which he outran. Then the tsunami came later.

 

Basically this is just suay. There's no way anyone can monitor for underwater landslides. We can't even monitor for avalanches except we can only note certain areas where avalanche is prone due to the way the snow has fallen.

Warning System 2012 Spoilt...never Replace. [furious]  [furious]  [bigcry] RIP to the Victims.

 

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Karoon

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Warning System 2012 Spoilt...never Replace. [furious][furious][bigcry] RIP to the Victims.

Not spoilt lah. Likely some a**holes came and stole the batteries to sell. Very common there.
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