A note from the Kumamoto International Desk of Really Scary Things:
Rescue work for victims of the recent Indonesian quake continue, but due to liquefaction, as one put it, “Nugroho said it was difficult to pinpoint the exact number of missing as many of them are believed to have been in buildings that were swallowed up ― some of them whole ― into the earth because of a process known as soil liquefaction.”
Sheesh. Whole buildings swallowed up. Our thoughts go out to the victims and hopes that a similar disaster does not strike Kumamoto.