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TheRealOneTwo t1_iye6230 wrote

TIL? That just happened like last year...2004. Oh damn

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kmackerm t1_iye7mz8 wrote

Good movie about it called "The Impossible" I think.

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PM_ME_DANGLING_FLATS t1_iyeb8fz wrote

Natural event kills .0035% of the world population.

Doesn't make top 10 list.

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InvaderZimSokali t1_iyeg8t8 wrote

Replying to TheRealOneTwo (#819,802)

I work with an attorney (a young attorney) who had never heard of it. I was telling her about a guy I knew who survived it and she didn't know what I meant by "Boxing Day Tsunami" or "Indian Ocean Tsunami". So then she googled it and said "Thanks for ruining my day, Invader."

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V6Ga t1_iyeo04a wrote

The link you provided contains nothing about not being in the top 10 for natural disasters.

This Wikipedia links, however, does:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll

And it shows it is right in line with the earthquake death tolls.

There is some decent rationale to exclude modern floods from being natural disasters as, the floods are usually caused by a failure of a man-made dam or canal system, and not by the floods by themselves.

And all of these are overwhelmed by pandemics, several of which have killed a serious percentage of the worldwide population. The Black Death killed 17- 54% of of the entire human population, Plague of Justinian 7-56% of the world population, and the Spanish Flu killed as much as 5% of the world population, and managed to spread to every continent and all populated islands, killing people everywhere in the world except Samoa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

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Snowbattt t1_iyetghn wrote

But that was like a few years ago and.... wait 2004... and it's 2022... why do I still live in that weird time loop where "the early 2000's" still sounds like just a few years ago?

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saliczar t1_iyev9sp wrote

There wasn't a single living human being that lived through the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

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shindleria t1_iyevr6u wrote

I happened to be on the opposite side of the planet when this happened (in the Caribbean). The following day the water receded drastically like an extremely low tide and I was able to walk along exposed reef that seemed to go for miles along the coast. I figured it was a consequence of so much of the ocean being displaced and was sloshing around the planet, combined with the usual tidal flows. I’m curious to know if anyone else experienced this.

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Heliolord t1_iyf4qqj wrote

Replying to shindleria (#829,030)

That is probably not a wise move. You see water receding that much, you ought be moving in case that water starts coming back. I'd get far away from the shore for a while until the tide comes back up just in case.

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shindleria t1_iyf6jyz wrote

Replying to Heliolord (#832,913)

After seeing extensive footage of what had just taken place in the Indian Ocean I was never going to venture out that far, and believe me I had my eyes on the ocean the entire time looking for any disturbance in the distance that resembled an incoming wave.

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DrZaius007 t1_iyfc5ct wrote

China has the top 4 positions and still has the highest population. Amazing

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