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Post by questa on Sept 23, 2017 1:52:30 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2017 4:44:17 GMT
Yes, I was reading that Agung was threatening the island. I am always reminded of what happened to Montserrat in 1995.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2017 16:29:24 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2017 1:15:43 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 29, 2018 18:59:39 GMT
No point in starting a new thread about the Indonesian plane crash today, but the country is definitely going through a bad patch this year.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 23, 2018 5:35:26 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2018 5:40:51 GMT
The original Krakatoa plunged a lot of the planet into winter for a year. Perhaps this is Mother Nature's answer to global warming.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 23, 2018 13:26:46 GMT
Horrors; I've just heard this bad news on the radio here. I'd been happily contemplating a little jar of Sambal Ulek Terasi, bought yesterday at a large Southeast Asian supermarket, two buses away from chez moi, as my nearby Marché orientale (Vietnamien) doesn't happen to carry those spice mixes, though they do have items from several different SE Asian countries, and from China of course. Indonesia does seem particularly exposed; I suppose because it is a huge archipelago? Indeed a bad year for that country: www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/23/sunda-strait-tsunami-is-latest-in-a-series-of-indonesian-disasters-in-2018 |
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2018 14:20:08 GMT
Jeez, never turn your back on the ocean!
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Post by whatagain on Dec 23, 2018 15:04:24 GMT
Sunday straits was where cruiser Houston was sunk in 42 along with Australian Perth. Irrelevant here.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2018 16:23:39 GMT
But narrow passages can make big waves.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 23, 2018 22:11:11 GMT
That video is terrifying!
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 17:02:04 GMT
Death toll now at 373.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2018 17:29:44 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2018 17:50:17 GMT
This will end up going beyond a thousand as usual.
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Post by questa on Dec 25, 2018 7:15:02 GMT
Once again the early warning system failed to operate. It still has not even had any work done on the non-functioning parts that were ordered to be fixed after the terrible tsunami earlier this year. By now, all the rescue departments will have run out of emergency equipment and money.Poor Indonesia.
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