Late on Friday, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck near Sulawesi, Indonesia, quickly followed by a highly localised, intense and devastating tsunami. Waves up to 5.5m high inundated Palu Bay, drowning a beach festival, destroying buildings, and claiming over 800 lives.
At approximately 12:30AM AEDT today (8:30AM local time), the National Weather Service sent a test tsunami warning to an unknown number of people. It was not immediately obvious to some that the alert of an impending, destructive force of nature was a test – and at least one-third party app,…
A danger is lurking in the bucolic mountains of Switzerland: the alpine lake tsunami. Yes, it’s a real thing, and yes it has happened before — many times, according to unsettling new geological research.