Fire at the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station in Antarctica, on 25 February 2012 that killed 2 people and injured another.

The fire broke out in the machine room housing the power generators at approximately 2:00 am (Brasília time) on 25 February 2012.The Brazilian Navy opened an investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident. An initial report by the Ministry of Defense suggests that a short circuit might have triggered the explosion.

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This post documents the 2004 Malaysia tsunami

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Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

at 07 : 58 : 53 WIB on Sunday, December 26 2004. An earthquake measuring 9.1 SR occurred off western coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

The earthquake generated a speeding tsunami that crashed into Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia and the Maldives, which killied tens of thousands of people. Causes by the Indian Plate to be pushed down by the Burma Plate.

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Tsunami Hits Malaysia

After 3 hours, the tsunami hit Malaysia, more precisely on Langkawai Island

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Raw footage of the tsunami hitting Malaysia

Tsunami Hit Langkawi Islands

Tsunami Hit Kedah

Tsunami Hit Pinang Islands

Live Broadcast

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Aftermath

As many as 75 people died in Malaysia due to the tsunami.

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This post is a continuation of the previous post about the 2004 Indonesian Aceh tsunami.

Hopefully this tragedy will not happen again

This archive discusses the 2004 Aceh Tsunami tragedy

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami or better known as (Aceh earthquake and tsunami) occurred at 07 : 58 : 53 WIB on Sunday, December 26 2004. The epicenter was located off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake shock had a scale of 9.1–9.3 on the moment strength scale and IX (Great) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Megathrust earthquakes Undersea earthquakes occur when the Indian Plate is pushed downward by the Burma Plate. This tsunami wave killed around 227,898 people in 14 countries, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia and the Maldives were the worst affected countries.

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempa_bumi_dan_tsunami_Samudra_Hindia_2004

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Indonesia was the first country to be seriously affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Almost all of the victims and damage occurred in Aceh Province. The arrival time of the tsunami was around 15 to 30 minutes after the earthquake. According to the National Disaster Management Agency, around 130,000 people died and 37,063 people are missing. In addition, the UN estimates that 655,000 people are homeless and taking refuge in refugee camps scattered across the province. In the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, around 60,000 people were killed by the tsunami. More than a thousand bodies were found in the streets of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, and placed in mass graves without waiting for identification as officials quickly tried to keep the situation from worsening.

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempa_bumi_dan_tsunami_Samudra_Hindia_2004

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The area most devastated by the Tsunami and Earthquake

Indian Ocean map

Sumatra island map

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempa_bumi_dan_tsunami_Samudra_Hindia_2004

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The time when the tragedy occurred

07 : 58 : 53 WIB on Sunday, December 26 2004.

Megathrust earthquakes Undersea earthquakes occur when the Indian Plate is pushed downward by the Burma Plate.

The epicenter was located off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake shock had a scale of 9.1–9.3 on the moment strength scale and IX (Great) on the Mercalli intensity scale, causing a Tsunami wave to appear

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempa_bumi_dan_tsunami_Samudra_Hindia_2004

Amateur video of what happened during the earthquake

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The arrvial of tsunami waves in Aceh

The arrival time of the tsunami was around 15 to 30 minutes after the earthquake.

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempa_bumi_dan_tsunami_Samudra_Hindia_2004

Amateur video recorded by someone on a ship recording a sea wave that was about to hit Aceh

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the moment Aceh was hit by a tsunami

In less than a few minutes, a large wave suddenly arrived, approximately 30 meters high, which swept across the west coast of Sumatra and the small islands around it. It is estimated that this tsunami wave wiped out the land at a speed of up to 800 km per hour.

In just seven minutes, cities on the west coast of Aceh were filled with building rubble and corpses in tragic conditions.

Recording of when Aceh was hit by a tsunami, recorded by Cut Putri

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Live broadcast at the time of the tragedy

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Aftermath

around 130,000 people died and 37,063 people are missing.

Throughout 2005-2009, the reconstruction and rehabilitation process was carried out to restore the condition of Aceh City. During that time, many assisted living facilities were established, including various infrastructure and public facilities.

Two years after the tsunami, development is a major challenge and the aim is still to rebuild basic infrastructure services. After the completion of the rehabilitation and reconstruction period, Aceh continued to develop, characterized by an increase in the area of built-up areas and a reduction in agricultural areas and other vegetation cover. The development of Banda Aceh City in 2005-2011 still focused on the post-earthquake and tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction program coordinated by BRR NAD-Nias. This period is a big challenge because we have to restore various sectors such as housing, educational facilities, health facilities, road network access, clean water access, and so on.

https://dishub.acehprov.go.id/pembangunan-aceh-setelah-19-tahun-berlalu-pasca-tsunami/

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Hopefully this tsunami tragedy will not happen again.

Wonder if they survived it

Massive fire breaks out at the historic Oceanside Pier in California about 40 min north of San Diego city.

The fire appears to be at the location of Ruby's Restaurant, a diner which is permanently closed.

Fire fighting boats are on the scene however they are having a very difficult time putting out the fire.

The original pier was build in 1888

The city of Oceanside spent $5.5 million last year to upgrade the 1,954 foot long pier by replacing old pipes and electrical systems.

This flood took place in Algeria, Jijel, on February 15. The heavy rains led to the flooding of valleys and the formation of torrents, resulting in the destruction of cars, homes, the bus station, and farms. Unfortunately, 13 people lost their lives during this disaster.

1- Here are some pics/videod showing the main entrance of the town "Jijel." :

Same place but after some hours :

After math :

2- Apartment complex :

Hours after the flood started :

Mid flood :

Random pics pf the same place

After math of flooded farms

from news;

„More than 11,000 people have been told to evacuate and air travel in the region has been disrupted after a volcano in northern Indonesia erupted multiple times.

Mount Ruang, located in North Sulawesi Province, first erupted at 9:45pm (13:45 GMT) on Tuesday, sending billowing clouds of smoke and ash high into the sky.”

i don't know if anybody died.

source:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/18/11000-evacuated-in-northern-indonesia-as-ruang-volcano-erupts

She failed who would've thought

What happened?

On April 9, 2015, Clem Schultz, aged 85, was at his home in Fairdale, Illinois, with his wife, Geraldine, known as Geri.

"We just finished supper," Schultz, 85, told ABC News. "My wife called me in the kitchen. She said, 'Look out the window.' And sure enough I looked out -- we see this big, ugly tornado coming."

"It looked like it was going to miss us," he said.

Geri stayed in the kitchen while he went upstairs to get some lanterns.

As the loud tornado loomed, Schultz decided to start recording cell phone video.

The video shows the tornado move closer and the sky darken, before the picture goes black.

"Up until the time the house started moving, it still looked to me like it was going to go to the west -- and miss us," he said. "Suddenly, I realized I was wrong.

I was standing next to the chimney when the whole place went down," Shultz said.

The chimney fell on top of him; he remembers he was buried in a pile of rubble.

"All of a sudden it kind of got quiet," Schultz continued. "'I asked myself 'Are you dead?' But then I said, 'No you can't hurt when you're dead,' and I hurt."

He said he later learned he had a crushed vertebrae.

As several people helped Schultz dig his way out, he said one of them told him, "'Don't look down because your wife is under you -- and she's dead.'"

He looked for her pulse, but couldn't find it.

Clem also said that he wont be living in Fairdale anymore. However some time later, he did return to Fairdale with a Black Shepard to meet his former neighbor, Joe Wiegand. Clem didn't plan to rebuild the house because of his "memories" and looking at moving close to his kids.

Why did Clem keep recording and did not seek shelter?

The reason Clem wants this to be out there is to "save lives". Clem also stayed in the attic because he thought the tornado was tracking away from him, but when he realized it was coming for him; it was already too late. He was unable to move fast because of his age.

Joe Wiegand

After the incident, Clem showed the infamous video to Joe, this is what the conversation was like:

CLEM: About two minutes into this, my house came down and knocked the phone out of my hand and it kept recording.

JOE: So now you are still standing up taking video right now?

CLEM: Right about now is when I realized ‘uh-oh.'

JOE: See the shaking? Your house is shaking apart right now, isn't it?

CLEM: Yeah. At this point, I was laying under several feet of rubble, wondering why I was still alive.

CLEM: He said ‘okay, now you're by this beam, I want you to sit down and put your feet down here on the floor, but don't look down.' I said ‘why don't look down?' He said, ‘because your wife is right under you and she's dead.'

JOE: You look down?

CLEM: Of course. I reached down, and got her pulse…no pulse. We had propane leaking. They told me, ‘you gotta get out of here.'

Who's dead and who's not?

Clem miraculously survived with a broken vertebra. He was send to a hospital in Madison for back issues, likely due to the tornado. His wife named Geri Schultz(aged 67) and a neighbor named Jacklyn Klosa(aged 69, the house in front that Clem filmed was Jacklyn's house) both were killed. His dog named Missy was uninjured but went suddenly missing after.

Clarence "Clem" Schultz:

Geraldine "Geri" Schultz:

Jacklyn Klosa:

Aftermath photos of Clem's now destroyed house:

The tornado itself:

Hope Clem is feeling better now

Behind Dashcam:

Bonus

Another car dashcam video:

Taiwan's strongest earthquake in 25 years kills seven, traps 77

• Earthquake kills seven, more than 700 injured

• At least 77 trapped, many in tunnels

• Epicentre just off Taiwan's sparsely populated east coast

• Semiconductor giant TSMC evacuates production lines

TAIPEI, April 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan's biggest earthquake in at least 25 years killed seven people on Wednesday, injuring more than 700, with 77 trapped in tunnels and collapsed buildings, authorities said, as rescuers used ladders to help some people descend to safety.

Television broadcast images of buildings tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated eastern county of Hualien, near the epicentre of the 7.2 magnitude quake, which struck just offshore at about 8 a. m. (0000GMT).

"It was very strong. It felt as if the house was going to topple," said Chang Yu-lin, 60, a worker in a hospital in Taipei, the capital.

A woman who runs a bed-and-breakfast accommodation in Hualien city said she scrambled to calm her guests who were frightened by the quake.

"This is the biggest earthquake I have ever experienced," said the woman who asked to be identified by her family name, Chan.

The quake hit at a depth of 15.5 km (9.6 miles), just as people were headed for work and school, setting off a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

Video showed rescuers using ladders to help trapped people out of windows, while elsewhere there were massive landslides, as strong tremors in Taipei forced the subway system to close briefly, although most lines resumed service.

Fire authorities said about 60 of the roughly 77 trapped were caught in a tunnel just north of Hualien city, with two Germans among those trapped in another tunnel.

The government put the number of injured at 736.

"At present the most important thing, the top priority, is to rescue people," said President-elect Lai Ching-te, speaking outside one of the collapsed buildings in Hualien.

The rail link to the area was expected to re-open on Thursday, Lai, who is set to take office next month, told reporters.

Taiwan's air force said six F-16 fighter jets had been slightly damaged at a major base in the city from which jets are often scrambled to see off incursions by China's air force, but it expected the aircraft to return to service very soon.

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This is a classic oldie. Most people think the worker died, but he didn't! In fact, he was barely scratched.

The backstory is in this youtube video which I copy/pasted below. Here's the Youtube Video, but you really don't need to see it, its the same:

There is another youtube video of this accident but it's not as good.

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Backstory:

2,065,239 views Jun 28, 2011

An excavator driver escaped certain death while removing a house in the Talkha center on the Mansoura-Damietta highway last week, when a building collapsed in front of the excavator he was working on, in a rare scene that Youm7 obtained a video recording of.

The funny thing is that the driver survived death, but lost his mobile phone and his wallet. Major General Mohsen Hefzy, Governor of Dakahlia, granted the citizen Zain El Abidine Mustafa Ahmed Ghazi, “excavator driver at the Arab Contractors Company,” an amount of one thousand pounds in his office yesterday morning, Monday, as compensation for the loss of his belongings.

The driver was in a campaign to remove encroachments on agricultural lands and state property in the Talkha center, on the “Mansoura-Damietta” highway, when he was involved in the accident last week.

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Backstory

A huge collapse occurred in a 5-story building in a few seconds while a campaign by the armed forces, police, and the Talkha City Council in Egypt was carrying out a campaign to remove major and provocative encroachments. It began with a building that the owner of a car company built without a license. It is strange that the driver of Al-Daqaq went about his work and took out Al-Daqaq after clearing the concrete that fell on him with another loader. A security source confirmed that he did not believe what happened and that it was the power of God alone that saved everyone at the site, and that if what happened were repeated hundreds of times, it would not come out in this way.

Landslide in North Bastem District, Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia killed 4 people.

Three members of the band were killed and a lot of random people at the concert.

Many thanks to @thresh for giving me the idea. I didn't want to overload you all with words and yapping as I am writing up something for Black Saturday 09 which I have personal experience in.

The Fargo tornado of 1957 was the third in a tornado family to move from Central North Dakota to Central Minnesota. Well known for being the most destructive and violent out of the family, the Fargo Tornado is also known for the deaths of the Munson family children where 6 children in one family were killed. The body of Jeanette is shown below, being carried by the 21 year old Richard Shaw. It was made worse knowing that these children stayed home, unable to escape the violent winds that would soon engulf the home, hiding under the kitchen table. Despite the insistence of their fellow neighbors earlier, they refused to leave, they had prepared a surprise birthday party for their mother. As it happened, Mercedes Munson had asked to get off work early, but the man who was to relieve her was half an hour late. Mercedes Munson was able to reach her 16-year-old daughter on the phone. But then the line abruptly went dead.

This tornado was the cornerstone of tornado research for Dr. Ted Fujita, Fujita would coin the terms “wall cloud”, “tail cloud” and “collar cloud” (NWS, 2019), which are still in use today. Likely if you've heard a series of words like this during tornado season, Fujita was probably the one who created it. He created new ways to research tornadoes such as including aerial photography and the use of satellite images and film. The 1957 Fargo tornado, despite being in an area not familiar to many Americans, was said to be the best documented tornado in history.

Extra reading:

https://nwafiles.nwas.org/digest/papers/2011/Vol35No1/Pg27-Schultz-etal.pdf

https://www.inforum.com/newsmd/60-years-later-fargos-1957-tornado-still-haunts

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=17yQKILl8rVgdQPoToR9o-EjHsQ8&hl=en_US&ll=46.905443453113655%2C-96.80390596409717&z=13

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_sequence_of_June_20%E2%80%9323,_1957

https://www.tornadotalk.com/fargo-nd-f5-tornado-june-20-1957/

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in Spitak, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia (now Armenia) in 1988.

An earthquake was felt in central Armenia around 11 a.m. However, Armenia was originally located on the border of the Arabian and Eurasian plates like the other Caucasus regions, so earthquakes were frequent and people thought nothing of it and went back to their normal lives soon after preparing for an earthquake. However, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Armenia at 11:41 a.m. The massive earthquake forced the collapse of stone houses, which were not designed to be earthquake-resistant, and destroyed downtown Spitak, where most of the buildings collapsed. People were forced to be trapped in the collapsed buildings without time to avoid the earthquake, which contributed to the damage.

Since then, the Soviet government has immediately sent rescue teams to the scene, but because the majority of the city had collapsed and the roads were no different, the rescue teams could not arrive early and eventually start full-scale rescue after taking care of the surroundings. However, because of its size, the Soviet Union unusually actively asked Western countries for help, and several Western countries sent rescue teams to the Soviet Union

The earthquake damaged an estimated 25,000 to 50000 people and an estimated 31,000 to 1300 people injured, and destroyed most buildings in the city of Spitak.

Since then, the Soviet government has been struggling to recover due to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, while Armenia has gained independence and has since been slow to recover due to internal problems and war, but most of it has been restored as Armenia's economic situation has improved.

What it looks like after the earthquake

South Korea also reported the earthquake as news.

What? Dickfart doing another post so soon? Yeah what you gonna do 'bout it.

In January 2024, two forest fires prompted the National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response to issue a red alert. One occurred on 20 January in Lonquimay, Araucanía Region, and another on 26 January in Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region.

On 22 January, a fire, named "Antiquereo 2", broke out on the boundary of Portezuelo and Trehuaco in the Ñuble Region. It was contained by 24 January after consuming 35 hectares (86 acres). SENAPRED responded by declaring a yellow alert in Portezuelo, marking the first alert of the year in the region.

By the end of January 2024, a fire originating in Florida, Biobío Region, spread to Quillón in the Ñuble Region. The "Casablanca" fire, covering 69.5 hectares (172 acres) in the Peñablanca sector, was extinguished through collaborative efforts between the Quillón and Florida fire departments.

In the last week of January 2024, a heatwave hit central Chile, with temperatures 10 to 15 °C (18 to 27 °F) above the weekly average. Anticipating an increased wildfire risk, the Meteorological Directorate of Chile issued a heat alert on 28 January, projecting temperatures of 36 to 38 °C (97 to 100 °F) in valleys and foothills of the central zone and 30 °C (86 °F) on the coast of Valparaíso, O'Higgins, and Maule regions.

A total of 131 people were killed in the fires, of whom 35 have been identified so far. The Chilean Forensic Medical Service said many bodies were found to be in bad condition and difficult to identify, prompting them to take DNA samples from people with missing relatives. At least 45 of the dead were found at the scene, while six others died of burn injuries in medical facilities. At least 14,000 houses were affected by the fires in Viña del Mar and Quilpué. Over 370 people were reported missing in the Viña del Mar area alone, while 1,600 others were displaced by the fires. The fires were regarded as the deadliest in Chile's history, and the deadliest disaster in the country since the 2010 Chile earthquake.

In Valparaíso, four hospitals and three nursing homes were evacuated, and two bus terminals were destroyed. In Viña del Mar, the city's botanical garden, which was founded in 1931, was destroyed by the fires, killing an employee and three of her relatives.

President Gabriel Boric said the death toll was likely to rise.