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

Like, how is this almost 20 years ago..

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

People born in 04 are in college now

Oh for crying out loud

Wait... 2004 is almost 20 years ago? Holy shit I feel so old now :(

Happy cake day!

Intense movie. Happy cake day!

Natural event kills .0035% of the world population.

Doesn't make top 10 list.

I thought that was for birthdays.. But today is definitely not my birthday so I go looking at my info and seems I joined reddit on Nov 30..is that what cake day means?

Correct!

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."

What you just said made me physically unwell

At first I thought, wtf, no way. Then I remembered my daughter was born in '04. She is in her 2nd year of college.

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

Fuuuuuuuuuuu........

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?

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

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.

Another reason to avoid China. They’re all over that first list.

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.

Proto monkeys: pathetic.

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.

I would like to report a hate crime.

I can't say I wouldn't do the same if I had been in your shoes, but I've heard it said if you can see the water coming back it's too late to escape.

I vividly remember watching on TV. My grandmother lived near the beach, her house got flooded by this. Luckily, she was visiting us at the time.

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

Only old people say that btw

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