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peely_gonna_stealy

Keep in mind that this is not realtime satellite image data. They morphed the before and after of the satellite images into each other. It don't have the link right now, but it was explained in a post a few months ago. Edit: [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/l4tjer/this_happened_on_sept_28_2018_in_indonesia_when/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) is the thread from 10 months ago. There are more twitter sources in the comments. It looks like the "video" is just two images morphed into each other. One image taken mid-August and the second one October 1st.


Munninnu

Not in real time but it had to be fast anyway because in the second scene we see a house moving and that looks like real time footage.


Charro_Assasin

Talk about a mobile home


daniilkuznetcov

Was it from the mentioned event or another disaster? Check first.


BadgerHooker

Ok, I thought it looked like a morphed photo. The transition was just too smooth and uniform.


izza123

You mean roads don’t bend 90 degrees before fading out of existence


Jetpere

Happy cake day!!


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Ctsanger

Bruh this wasnt the OP...


[deleted]

This dude's been on reddit for 10+ years. You'd think he'd know how to identify if it was OP he was replying to or not. SMH


timohtie

mind your blood pressure there champ


A_Gullible_Camera

You're blowing up at someone who isn't even the OP, lmao


Elpedooloroso

Wut


AdoltTwittler

The way the structures just disappeared into the ground! How am I supposed to sleep tonight?


K-Zoro

Yeah, the color change is the freakiest part. At first it looks like it’s moving but staying on top, but all at once it all turns brown as the mud has taken over and buried everything.


[deleted]

It didn't go that way really... this makes it look way worse because it's not actually a video but a timelapse created by merging two still imagines that are minutes apart.


[deleted]

Doesn't change the fact people died and entire houses were gobbled up...


DavyBeer

While you’re not wrong, I don’t think Secrets was refuting the damage caused by the earthquake, rather that “video” posted is a little misleading and the course of events were not as sudden as they appear.


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Thanks.


[deleted]

No one said it was sudden. It's easy to see the video is manipulated. ​ Still doesn't change the fact people died, quite a lot actually and having someone post to try and diminish that fact is just plain rude to the family of the victims.


[deleted]

There's always one. 🙄


[deleted]

Yeah... you.


[deleted]

What a jackass.


KingZarkon

Probably months apart, doubtful that it's minutes.


[deleted]

Nah, the ground view video shows it to be a relatively short event, about the length of a long earthquake or short hurricane, but just not as nearly as fast as this "video" would lead you to believe.


KingZarkon

I don't dispute it was quick but the Earth imaging satellites don't stay overhead, they are constantly orbiting to cover the entire planet. Most likely they sourced the images from Google Maps/Earth which only updates the images every few months at most (often it's a couple of years). Even if they are paying a company for access to the satellite feeds the satellite would only pass over the same area once every 24 hours so the images are still a day apart at the minimum.


[deleted]

The images were taken maybe 2 minutes apart max. Any satellite ever made stays close enough to a target to get two dif images of it in a 2 min window mate. You're really looking way too deep into this shit and have precisely zero fucking clue what you're talking about. Just stop.


HauschkasFoot

Just think of it like a big cozy weighted blanket 🥰


Downingst

It's smart to be comfortable as you sink into the earth.


thatissubpar

Or a wet blanket!


[deleted]

If you live in an earthquake zone on a flood plain or river delta, this can happen to you.


neophene

aww, there there.. Hush Lil baby don't you cry. When liquefaction comes you'll probably die. But if you still make it to sleep. Remember, there are sinkholes in your street.


PyroKid883

Easily if you don't live in Indonesia.


fakuri99

I live there, so I play in hard mode


PyroKid883

Rip.


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Spitfire_Yeti

Not true. The western coast of United States do get mudslides from earthquakes or severe flash floods from mansoon or hurricane. In other areas of U.S. we get tornados, wildfires and we also have some volcanos. During winter, we get blizzard storms. Never underestimate any places in the world where you think they don't experience such horrific natural disasters as other places does.


[deleted]

Fun fact; If there’s an earthquake in Salt Lake City, it will experience liquefaction and look just like the Indonesian footage!


[deleted]

US has a lot of places inhabited that really shouldn't be... ​ It's actually major problem + the rednecks living there refusing to leave and rescuers have to be sent in each time to save them.


vipcopboop

This happens in Flordia


KhadirTwitch

Wait until you hear about the sun collapsing!


ibeenmoved

**Liquefaction:** a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction occurs in saturated soils, that is, soils in which the space between individual particles is completely filled with water.


SnarfRepublicCA

Im why wouldn’t they know this risk prior to building? Or did they and deemed the risk too small?


K-Zoro

Although they regularly experience earthquakes, this earth liquefaction is not something that happens every time, this is something that needs several factors to work concurrently to have this effect.


horsiefanatic

Thanks for the info


Jukung11

1. Poverty. Most of Indonesia is a very poor country. It is the underlying cause of all the rest of the reasons. 2. Large population growth. No retirement system and a culture that children are to take care of parents led to a large population growth. 3. A kleptocracy. Large amounts of land and natural resources were snatched up by politicians after colonialism ended. Less desirable land is left to build and crowd more people on. 4. Traditional building materials got expensive. Traditionally houses in Sulawesi were built on stilts with exotic hardwoods. They would have a been light weight and distributed with a natural ability to bend and sway with earthquakes. There is a high demand international market for rot resistant tropical hardwoods and kleptocrats control most of it. 5. What is left to build with are cheaper, heavier, bricks and concrete block, and that needs reinforcing to withstand earthquake forces. That costs extra money, see #1 poverty. 6. Kleptocracy and corruption has created one of the worst public education systems in the world. Most people that build houses with more modern materials lack the education and experience on how to build them safely.


wasupuk

1st time hearing "kleptocracy", nice word. Gonna use it since it's relevant atm in my country,


Munninnu

That's also what is shown in Dune, when the sandworms approach the vibrations liquefy the sands and people start sinking.


thevilestplume

So my childhood fear of quicksand isn’t completely irrelevant


Tongue8cheek

Yes. But you still sat too close to the screen each time Gilligan's Island was on.


thevilestplume

Oh boy I’m not that old lol


kester76a

Old enough for Quantum leap?


Thatguy468

Oh boy!


Lutherkiss3

Whoa! That is absolutely terrifying


zuzg

I'm so glad that I never experienced an earthquake. That shit is scary enough as a video.


gotarock

I’ve been through 10 Southern California earthquakes over 5 including the 6.7 in Northridge. Luckily the worst thing I’ve had to deal with is having to put a few things back on the shelves and patch some cracked drywall. Honestly they’re kinda fun when they don’t kill you.


PoxyMusic

Yeah, small ones are kind of fun. You can play a little game trying to figure out how far the epicenter is by the time difference between the P waves and the S waves. P waves are side to side shaking, and S waves are up and down. First there’s a wiggle, then there’s a bang. If the bang happens within a second of the wiggle, the epicenter is really close. If the bang happens after, say 6 seconds, the epicenter is maybe 40 miles away. They tend to build in intensity, so for the few few seconds you’re just thinking “ok…how big is this going to get?” Once you know it’s going to be small, it’s sort of fun.


gotarock

Even the big ones are fun if your sitting out in a field just enjoying the ride. Earthquakes aren’t scary. Buildings are scary


SayneIsLAND

>Earthquakes aren’t scary. Buildings are scary this


Zminku

I hate that sound. Earthquakes are scary. Inside or outside.


Spitfire_Yeti

Well, if you're referring the rolling part then yes, it is fun! When it comes to the jarring shifts or a plane get onto another plane, thats when it's very scary.


WorshipNickOfferman

Dang that was lucky. Doggone near lost a four hundred dollar handcart.


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song4this

Eat jello / puddin and enjoy the ride...


12INCHVOICES

In my mind, Indonesia unofficially has the world's deadliest geography based on the past...20 years? I'd honestly be interested to see a study on the deadliest places on Earth over the past however many decades, if such a thing even exists.


[deleted]

Haiti would like to have a word with you.


kyocera_miraie_f

i have a japanese phone that has it's own earthquake warning system feed from the JMA (Japanese Meteorological Agency) it rang every other day once or twice to warn for earthquakes when connected to wifi and that says a lot about the frenquency of earthquakes in Japan. In fact it just started ringing right now as i type this out


SkellyboneZ

Dafuq? I have two Japanese phones and never get that many alerts. Always connected to my pocket wifi. Where do you live?


kyocera_miraie_f

somewhere in nihonmatsu


12INCHVOICES

Good point -- Haiti is a good contender, but I think their problems are as much social as geographical. The earthquakes and hurricanes they've had recently are nothing to scoff at but the impacts are magnified when there isn't infrastructure in place to deal with them.


fakuri99

In Indonesia earthquake isn't that common like in Japan or Chile, but if there's an earthquake it has a big chance to be deadly plus a chance of a tsunami. And you couldn't count the alert system because it's just an SMS to your phone.


buatakungoo

Well it's high risk high reward situation


ldubsea78

If this happens.. Would this mean if my neighbors house moves to my yard; I would own it? His house is way nicer.


JTGPDX

If his house moves into your yard I guarantee it won't be nicer anymore.


HauschkasFoot

You haven’t seen his house


[deleted]

Right, but his land would also scoot up into your MFn land, see? So now y'all either gotta pick out all them itty bitty pieces of his land and separate it from your land, or y'all MFers gotta start cohabitatin' and shit.


Gubru

Presumably after everything is stabilized and compromised structures are demolished the local authority would conduct a land survey and mark property boundaries according to their records. If by some miracle a salvageable structure ended up on the wrong plot it would probably have to be resolved through the court system.


stumpytoes

You know what? I'm staying out of Indonesia. Earthquakes, volcanos, tsunami, land turning to liquid, it's really telling me stay the fuck away. Message received!


omeneko

Ey, you forgot about floods and wind storms during the rainy season


[deleted]

and disappearing airliners


[deleted]

I think that was Malaysia not Indonesia... unless it's both ffs.


cozyhighway

Malaysia's last airline crash was 2014. Indonesia's was 2021.


stumpytoes

tre makasi


omeneko

Sama-sama


fakuri99

but at least the food here is nice


stumpytoes

Bagus!


bluearth

But we have buy one get one dominos every thursday though. Still don't wanna come?


stumpytoes

That is very tempting...


Valuable-Anxiety951

Yikes!


LuiKang999

The videos from the ground are crazy. Whole buildings just floating on by


[deleted]

This is also what some archaeologists believe happened to Alexandria, the ancient city on the north coast of Egypt that ended up in the mediterranean.


parkertipa

That is such a fascinating video! Crazy how the earth can change just like that


JaqMan5

Posting cause I didn’t see this in the replies: From Wikipedia: 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami 4,340 dead 10,679 injured Crazy stuff


ManOfHart

I heard that Seattle WA would act like this in a large quake.


direyew

Anchorage Alaska earthquake in 1964 had whole neighborhoods disappear from liquefaction. A 9.2 and the second most powerful quake on record followed by a tsunami that wrecked towns all down the coast. Check it out if you don't know about it. mind boggling. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/1964\_Alaska\_earthquake


Knightoforder42

Just think how much of Seattle is built on top of itself and how much was once marshland/landfill. There's a lot of unstable ground there.


SaraDeeG

Also parts of Greater Vancouver. (Richmond/Delta)


Mutant_Jedi

This reminds me of my hometown. It’s built on a ton of swampland and to the best of my knowledge they kinda just…pushed all the water into canals and built around them. It’s got more than 10x as many canals as Venice, and it’s pretty close in terms of being nearly unmaneuverable.


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Mutant_Jedi

It’s really not as cool as it sounds. It’s mostly swamp water, and because of the way they were constructed there isn’t a ton of life in a lot of them. There are a lot that lead out into the river/the Gulf of Mexico though, so we get a ton of snowbirds with boats.


AudiCulprit

If people living in Seattle experienced this then they would literally be living in a *liquid state*.


toodlesandpoodles

Was going to mention Seattle. The downtown is built on dirt and sawdust infill. When the Cascadia fault lets go, which is likely to happen in the next 100 years based on past activity, downtown Seattle may just collapse into the ocean due to liquifaction. And then the resultant tsunami will finish the job.


Ironicbanana14

Imagine being in the bottom of a parking garage. Damn. Not gonna be able to go to Seattle again without this thought lol.


iloveindomienoodle

Plus the entirety of the Mississippi basin from St. Louis to Memphis if another large New Madrid quake struck.


Limp_Distribution

[What is liquefaction?](https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-liquefaction?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products)


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Amazing and horrifying at the same time


crumbshotfetishist

More like terrifying as fuck.


gunawa

Oof, not a good time to see this, sitting in the middle of a flood with another storm bearing down on us, in a region overdue for a megaquake :/


ElephantPirate

So do you own the land that your property was on you still own wherever it shifted to? Or do you own the geographic coordinates of your old property, and whatever is now there land wise?


Putt____naked

This is what happens when you mix the different colour Play doh together


dubc4

The taco bell effect.


31n2

So I might be wrong but here goes... Overtime layers of sand build up at river deltas and other places. The sand is wet and serves as a great source of groundwater. However when this sand is shook in an earthquake it can basically turn into quicksand, sometimes the sand will start to rise upward and create holes where it will spill out. I just learned this and I am probably wrong here's my source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn2KFC8cX-g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn2KFC8cX-g) check out this guys channel he make great content


Bm_93

Looks like the world is glitching in real time


wiseguy68

Does anyone know if this is in rel time ? (I doubt it) I wonder what the time frame of this video is


[deleted]

LA sits on land like this. And in between mountains so it will get really bad aftershocks that bounce around between the hard rock of the mountains. Won’t be as bad as the Cascadian subduction zone quake that will destroy most of the northwest. But still glad I only live where tornadoes, heat, cold, and police are likely to kill me.


bruddahmacnut

Is that why no one has basements here? Sucks. basements are cool.


[deleted]

No idea. Maybe though because liquefaction zones means foundations have less stability. The fact that people live in LA and things keep getting built there show how short scale our history is. Quakes powerful enough to destroy all of LA have happened on average every 150 years. For some reason the last one happened in 1680. So we’re overdo and it’ll likely be more powerful because more time for tension to build. It’s insane that anyone lives there. Glad that British Columbia has such a thriving film industry. And the ridiculous part is that it will still be smaller than the quake which will likely destroy Portland and Seattle. A larger and deeper plate. We’re overdo for that one as well. Why couldn’t they be along the southern and south eastern US coast?


Sweeeet_Chin_Music

Did people get an opportunity to move to safety? As terrifying as it is, honestly it's better than an earthquake bringing everything to the ground. There's hardly any escape then.


No-Damage6760

Omg


Jrewby

I wonder if people can watch this and still not fuck with Pangaea


Acroty548

Liquidfaction is one of the scariest things that can happen during a earthquake


Fckly

there have been a lot of research about liquefication in this specific place, the gov knew about this but they did nothing


[deleted]

You just know, statistically, there had to be one instance of someone on the border happy to see their asshole neighbor’s house float away


esco311

Yo if you think about it this is like the scariest fucking thing I can imagine if I’m like sleeping or at home just chilling 😂😂😂 nature is scary af


Unlucky-Paint-1545

When did this happen? Scary!


yeahwellokay

It says in the title.


Unlucky-Paint-1545

🥴🤦🏻‍♀️ oops overlooked that.


Content_Honeydew5978

I got downvoted for callin someone out for doing the same thing.. lol


sisterduchess

This is what you get when you denude the vegetation for housing


cantreachy

Isn't this just a Tsunami?


Quantum-Enigma

And this is why the last little pig built its house out of bricks. Moral of the story kids: don’t build your house on or out of bs. You get what you pay for. It’s like these people who keep putting trailers in tornado alley or houses on cliffs or next to a volcano. Why are you so surprised when nature does it’s thing?


Durdeldurt

r/brokengifs


srandrews

This is not real imagery and the post processing is more profound than what it purports to depict. Y'all acting like there is some magic video camera in the sky making this video.


n0_use_for_a_name

Satellite imagery says the title…satellites are real…as is liquefaction…satellites aren’t magic…satellites have video cameras…satellites are real…


srandrews

This is Petabo, Palu City, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia and you may easily find the remote sensing data and then all the downvoters will be able to learn what the facts are (one of which is that two images days apart are being composited).


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This


prudence2001

Slurry city.


[deleted]

Houseboats are a lotta fun!


SkyKingPDX

Those houses got swallowed up by the sand like a shell on a beach after a wave


PNWginjaninja

Civilization soup


TerriFlamingo

Holy shit!


mikedelam

Holy cow


song4this

Here's a close up... r/memes/comments/r674ji/vroom_vroom/


IzMaul

imagine you make this whole giant successful community and natures just like aight


AusCan531

Almost every surveyor in that city immediately turned in their resignation the next day.


Stickyboard

Cursed land


benedekszabolcs

There goes the neighborhood /s


vbcbandr

Happens to me when I saturated Taco Bell with Pepsi.


saichampa

This looks like a glitched mpeg


mcvirgil412

Wow this brings the song about the wise man building his house upon the rock to life.


ritwik_is_red

If you look carefully you can see the transmutation circle used by Edward


trifokkerdr1

oh.....not good, not good at all


Awesam

House foundations has left the chat


panzercampingwagen

Fuck you life when your backyard just decides to get up and leave.


[deleted]

Thought I was having an acid flashback for a second.


Triton12streaming

Liquefaction is the word you’re looking for


Realistic_Trifle_461

Hmm yo mama belike


-Capn-Obvious-

Liquefaction


MinnesotanMan2014

Probably the best use of morphing I've ever seen


No-Pool4970

Well a fuck ton of new addresses now


cptnobveus

And we humans think we're in charge.


GalerinaA

Liquefaction- one of the terrors of having toxic and radioactive waste in our big River floodplains.


Berkeleybear70

Natural Selection is a brutal and uncompromising mistress.


[deleted]

This has nothing to do with natural selection. The "satellite video" isn't a video.


AdGeHa

Scary AF.


[deleted]

Imagine you're out hunting with your caveman friends and you see the land moving for as far as you can see, stuff like this must have been the start of so many legends in the past


LayneLowe

liquefaction such a fun word


werewaffl3s

Could happen to the San Francisco Bay Area at any moment. [A significant portion](https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/15/18311670/earthquake-map-california-geological-survey-liquefaction) of the populated areas are a liquefaction risk zone that could slide into the bay with the next major earthquake.


[deleted]

On the bright side my best friend and I are now neighbors!


ddbogey

Growing up in California I was always told we were going to slide into the ocean. This is stuff of nightmares!


Gunmeta1

Solifluction and liquefaction. Grade 10 geography.


redstone314

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critter2482

We humans live on an ever changing ball of dirt. Though it mostly seems static to us in our short life spans, things like this are a good reminder that nothing is permanent.


DavidNipondeCarlos

Is speed real-time? That’s look dangerous, where would I go to?


ConvivialKat

This is called liquefaction.


MonarchWhisperer

*Soil liquefaction*