Have you experienced/witnessed any type of natural disasters?

[calxpal]

I saw a destructive storm with big hail a few times, I would like to witness some of the other disasters in my lifetime

[Aspirin]

I don't know if you have seen a pic of Koh Phi Phi so you know the topography. She had been in the lowland somewhat away from the beach and then heard an incredible noise when the wave came and crushed things - thinking it was a strom or something.

Main island is basically two hilly islands connected by a strand of flat land like a bridge (approx 1 km long and 150-400 m wide). On this flat land are located all the resorts and most of the settlements. Because of this lowland area, here exist two bays, one in the north and another one in the south. The shape of these two bays are the key why tsunami here was so devastating. The southern bay is basically shielded from the west, the wave who came from here was small, and not very powerful. The northern bay is different, because the entrance of bay is facing directly to the west from where tsunami came, experiencing a much bigger wave due to amplification of tsunami energy entering in the narrow space of the bay. Topography play a very big role in how the tsunami behave and manifest itself near the shore.

Spoiler!

She said that by far mostly Thais died because they simply could not swim (pretty weird when living on Koh Phi Phi), something that was unseen for European turists except for small children.

I doubt this was only because many of them didn't know to swim, is almost impossible to swim in a tsunami, because of very strong turbulent currents. Many lucky survivors describe their tsunami experience like being into a big washing machine.

Good what your sister survive, she was very lucky. To survive in a tsunami first and the most you need to be very very lucky.

[Rostos vilmoskörte]

I didn't find any information of any tsunami near Thailand in 2010 or 2011, not even small ones. Thailand is far from any tsunamigenic zones like the one who caused 2004 tsunami. Maybe you mean earthquakes, becuase they can be felt in Thailand, and Singapore too.

That's because like I said, it's not interesting if it doesn't kill a bunch of tourists.

People back home knew nothing about it and one media site had a small notice that relatives in the west were confused why nobody mention that people are evacuated to the mountains all over the coast and nobody in the west knew anything.

[Aspirin]

That's because like I said, it's not interesting if it doesn't kill a bunch of tourists.

People back home knew nothing about it and one media site had a small notice that relatives in the west were confused why nobody mention that people are evacuated to the mountains all over the coast and nobody in the west knew anything.

I don't think this have anything to do with tourists, I just can't find any information about any earthquake and tsunami what could occur near Thailand in 2010 or 2011, let alone Singapore. Singapore is almost impossible to be affected by any tsunami and earthquake, is probably the safest place in the region.

Seismic map of the Southeast Asia very well show which areas are the most vulnerable, especially to earthquakes.


In Thailand people indeed started to evacuate in mountains and hills, but only after 2012 8.6 earthquake near Sumatra which generated a very small tsunami with only 10 cm waves in Thailand.

[Roy]

No, but the city in which I was born and attended school (Wrocław) was horrenduously ravaged by the Millennium Flood in 1997. The very place where my block of flats was though remained unaffected.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997...European_flood


Little tornadoes (still locally very restrictive) have become something not out of ordinary in Poland in recent times btw. I think it's a result of global warming.

This is how vast the flood was. High water stayed in some places for 8 days.

[Aspirin]

One of very few tornadoes which occurred here. Happened in my area one year ago. Judging by footage, was a weak F0/1.

[Roy]

I saw a destructive storm with big hail a few times, I would like to witness some of the other disasters in my lifetime

I would like to experience a ginormous storm providing that the place is safe. For instance in a lighthouse.

[tk'es]

very often


earthquake
storm
landslide
flood
hurricane

[Aspirin]

I would like to experience a ginormous storm providing that the place is safe. For instance in a lighthouse.

This is the only type of natural disaster I would like to see, of course from a safe spot. The most destructive force on our Planet. A lighthouse here will not help, only if he is located on a high ground.

[NSXD60]

A few years ago at my sister's house during a hurricane a tree fell against the kitchen which I had my back to, luckily only crushing but not collapsing the wall and roof.