The Horror of Watching Your Home Get Swallowed by Liquid Earth
(World News Science)

This article originally appeared on VICE Indonesia. Santi was getting ready for Friday evening prayers in Palu-a coastal city northwestern of Indonesia`s Central Sulawesi of more than 330,000-when the ground, solid earth only moments ago, suddenly liquefied and swallowed her concrete home. The city was shaking with a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and, all around her, the ground was turning into something like quicksand. Her neighbor`s homes started to sink into the earth. Her own house split in half, the bedrooms torn off the structure and moved some 300...