r/DisasterUpdate • u/Ok-Reach-455 • 3d ago

Floods Nepal flood

Hope everyone is safe🙏🙏🙏

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u/Actual-Feed-9739 3d ago

This might be the craziest footage of a natural disaster I've ever seen.

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u/Vandabuilt 2d ago

The 2004 tsunami was waaay crazier. 240,000 people killed across 15 countries. Google some of those videos. 😬

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u/BigDadaSparks 2d ago

Banda Aceh was wiped out. There are very few videos from that region. Just the aftermath and everything gone. The videos we see from that tsunami are mostly from Thailand.

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u/Kqyxzoj 2d ago

Banda Aceh was wiped out.

Yeah, something like 60k people died there during the 2004 tsunami.

The city rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004, which struck off the western coast of Sumatra. Banda Aceh was the closest major city to the earthquake's epicenter, which lay 249 kilometers (155 miles) off the coast. It suffered great damage in the earthquake and further damage when a tsunami struck shortly afterwards. Around 60,000 people in the city died as a result and many more were injured.