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New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

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New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate

Coastal cities and communities will face more frequent major hurricanes with climate change in the coming years. To help prepare coastal cities against future storms, MIT scientists have developed a method to predict how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve over the next decades.

When hurricanes make landfall, strong winds whip up salty ocean waters that generate storm surge in coastal regions. As the storms move over land, torrential rainfall can induce further flooding inland. When multiple flood sources such as storm surge and rainfall interact, they can compound a hurricane’s hazards, leading to significantly more flooding than would result from any one source alone. The new study introduces a physics-based method for predicting how the risk of such complex, compound flooding may evolve under a warming climate in coastal cities.

One example of compound flooding’s impact is the aftermath from Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The storm made landfall on the East Coast of the United States as heavy winds whipped up a towering storm surge that combined with rainfall-driven flooding in some areas to cause historic and devastating floods across New York and New Jersey.

In their study, the MIT team applied the new compound flood-modeling method to New York City to predict how climate change may influence the risk of compound flooding from Sandy-like hurricanes over the next decades.  

They found that, in today’s climate, a Sandy-level compound flooding event will likely hit New York City every 150 years. By midcentury, a warmer climate will drive up the frequency of such flooding, to every 60 years. At the end of the century, destructive Sandy-like floods will deluge the city every 30 years — a fivefold increase compared to the present climate.

“Long-term average damages from weather hazards are usually dominated by the rare, intense events like Hurricane Sandy,” says study co-author Kerry Emanuel, professor emeritus of atmospheric science at MIT. “It is important to get these right.”

While these are sobering projections, the researchers hope the flood forecasts can help city planners prepare and protect against future disasters. “Our methodology equips coastal city authorities and policymakers with essential tools to conduct compound flooding risk assessments from hurricanes in coastal cities at a detailed, granular level, extending to each street or building, in both current and future decades,” says study author Ali Sarhadi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

The team’s open-access study appears online today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Co-authors include Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi at MIT’s Lorenz Center, Kyle Mandli at Columbia University, Jeffrey Neal at the University of Bristol, Michael Wiper at the Charles III University of Madrid, and Monika Feldmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

The seeds of floods

To forecast a region’s flood risk, weather modelers typically look to the past. Historical records contain measurements of previous hurricanes’ wind speeds, rainfall, and spatial extent, which scientists use to predict where and how much flooding may occur with coming storms. But Sarhadi believes that the limitations and brevity of these historical records are insufficient for predicting future hurricanes’ risks.

“Even if we had lengthy historical records, they wouldn’t be a good guide for future risks because of climate change,” he says. “Climate change is changing the structural characteristics, frequency, intensity, and movement of hurricanes, and we cannot rely on the past.”

Sarhadi and his colleagues instead looked to predict a region’s risk of hurricane flooding in a changing climate using a physics-based risk assessment methodology. They first paired simulations of hurricane activity with coupled ocean and atmospheric models over time. With the hurricane simulations, developed originally by Emanuel, the researchers virtually scatter tens of thousands of “seeds” of hurricanes into a simulated climate. Most seeds dissipate, while a few grow into category-level storms, depending on the conditions of the ocean and atmosphere.

When the team drives these hurricane simulations with climate models of ocean and atmospheric conditions under certain global temperature projections, they can see how hurricanes change, for instance in terms of intensity, frequency, and size, under past, current, and future climate conditions.

The team then sought to precisely predict the level and degree of compound flooding from future hurricanes in coastal cities. The researchers first used rainfall models to simulate rain intensity for a large number of simulated hurricanes, then applied numerical models to hydraulically translate that rainfall intensity into flooding on the ground during landfalling of hurricanes, given information about a region such as its surface and topography characteristics. They also simulated the same hurricanes’ storm surges, using hydrodynamic models to translate hurricanes’ maximum wind speed and sea level pressure into surge height in coastal areas. The simulation further assessed the propagation of ocean waters into coastal areas, causing coastal flooding.

Then, the team developed a numerical hydrodynamic model to predict how two sources of hurricane-induced flooding, such as storm surge and rain-driven flooding, would simultaneously interact through time and space, as simulated hurricanes make landfall in coastal regions such as New York City, in both current and future climates.  

“There’s a complex, nonlinear hydrodynamic interaction between saltwater surge-driven flooding and freshwater rainfall-driven flooding, that forms compound flooding that a lot of existing methods ignore,” Sarhadi says. “As a result, they underestimate the risk of compound flooding.”

Amplified risk

With their flood-forecasting method in place, the team applied it to a specific test case: New York City. They used the multipronged method to predict the city’s risk of compound flooding from hurricanes, and more specifically from Sandy-like hurricanes, in present and future climates. Their simulations showed that the city’s odds of experiencing Sandy-like flooding will increase significantly over the next decades as the climate warms, from once every 150 years in the current climate, to every 60 years by 2050, and every 30 years by 2099.

Interestingly, they found that much of this increase in risk has less to do with how hurricanes themselves will change with warming climates, but with how sea levels will increase around the world.

“In future decades, we will experience sea level rise in coastal areas, and we also incorporated that effect into our models to see how much that would increase the risk of compound flooding,” Sarhadi explains. “And in fact, we see sea level rise is playing a major role in amplifying the risk of compound flooding from hurricanes in New York City.”

The team’s methodology can be applied to any coastal city to assess the risk of compound flooding from hurricanes and extratropical storms. With this approach, Sarhadi hopes decision-makers can make informed decisions regarding the implementation of adaptive measures, such as reinforcing coastal defenses to enhance infrastructure and community resilience.

“Another aspect highlighting the urgency of our research is the projected 25 percent increase in coastal populations by midcentury, leading to heightened exposure to damaging storms,” Sarhadi says. “Additionally, we have trillions of dollars in assets situated in coastal flood-prone areas, necessitating proactive strategies to reduce damages from compound flooding from hurricanes under a warming climate.”

This research was supported, in part, by Homesite Insurance.

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Béatrice Dalle in Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Cast: Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Decas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Hélène Lapoiwer, Marilu Marini, Aurore Clément. Screenplay: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau. Cinematography: Agnès Godard. Production design: Arnaud de Moleron. Film editing: Nelly Quettier. Music: Tindersticks. 

Claire Denis has steadily resisted linear storytelling and expository dialogue, preferring to trust audiences to pay attention, to assemble the narrative of her films themselves. The result has been films touched with greatness like Beau Travail (1999) and White Material (2009) that invite viewers to experience their stories with greater immediacy than if they were spoon-fed the relationships and motivations of the characters. But sometimes this demand on the viewer backfires, as I think it does in Trouble Every Day. Watching the film can be a visceral experience, a descent into transgressive behavior that's made more disturbing because Denis treats it so coldly. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) and Coré Sémeneau (Béatrice Dalle) are both afflicted with extreme versions of a malady, apparently contracted in Guyana, that causes them to become violent when sexually aroused. Shane has his mostly under control, it seems, except that he's newly married and on his honeymoon. To protect his wife from his impulses, he masturbates, once interrupting their intercourse to jerk off frantically. Coré's case has advanced much further: Her husband, a physician (Alex Descas), keeps her locked up, but she escapes to have sex and then bite vampire-like into the throats of her victims. Shane has come to Paris to see Dr. Sémeneau, who has been researching this disorder. After Trouble Every Day culminates in one of the most brutal rape scenes ever staged in a film, we're left with only the suggestion that sex and violence are intimately related, hardly a novel idea. It's one treated in, for example, the two movies called Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942, and Paul Schrader, 1982). Critics were mostly harsh when it was released, yet some revisionism has occurred, possibly because Denis is unquestionably a filmmaker who must be taken seriously. But unlike her best films, Trouble Every Day lacks the payoff of experiencing something meaningful. It ends up being only an intellectualized horror movie. 

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Alice Zeniter

Alice Zeniter è una scrittrice e drammaturga che racconta storie complesse e intime che affrontano le sfide e le ricchezze di identità e multiculturalità.

È nata il 7 settembre 1986 a Clamart, in Francia, da padre di origini algerine e madre francese.

Talento precoce, il suo primo romanzo, Deux moins un égal zéro, scritto a soli 16 anni, ha vinto il Prix littéraire de la ville de Caen.

Dopo la laurea in lettere moderne si è trasferita in Ungheria dove ha insegnato Lingua Francese e Storia del Teatro all’Università di Budapest, collaborando in diverse produzioni teatrali come Kreatakor e Kobal’t. 

Tornata in Francia nel 2013, ha iniziato a insegnare alla Sorbonne e creato la sua compagnia, L’Entente Cordiale.

Ha collaborato alla scrittura del lungometraggio Fever, adattamento dell’omonimo romanzo di Leslie Kaplan, diretto da Raphaël Neal e uscito nel 2015.

Il successo letterario è arrivato con il suo quarto libro, L’Art de Perdre del 2017, tradotto in diverse lingue, che ha ricevuto numerosi premi letterari, tra cui il prestigioso Prix Goncourt des lycéens e il Dublin Literary Award.

Il romanzo è la storia di tre generazioni di una famiglia durante e dopo la Guerra d’Algeria che affronta questioni complesse legate a identità, colonizzazione e diaspora.

Per Alice Zeniter la nazionalità è un oggetto magmatico e incandescente, dai colori continuamente cangianti.

Scrittrice attenta, dalla prosa formidabile, alterna il registro fiabesco a quello realistico, evocando mondi perduti con suggestione ma anche in maniera tagliente, a tratti brutale. Con accuratezza storica ridona dignità a un popolo bistrattato, conquistando con la sua sensibilità e capacità di entrare nell’intimo dell’animo umano.

Ha scritto varie opere teatrali di successo.

Nel 2018, Zeniter ha creato, con l’attrice Chloé Chevalier, un reading intitolato Tessons de femmes in cui, mettendo insieme vari testi, mettono in discussione il posto delle donne e del pensiero femminista nella letteratura. Nello stesso anno ha ricevuto il Grand Prix Béatrix de Toulouse-Lautrec dall’Académie des Jeux Floraux.

È stata la protagonista di un podcast in cui affronta temi come il razzismo, il suo rapporto con il corpo femminile e la scrittura.

Il suo primo monologo, nel 2020 è stato alla Comédie de Valence, testo pubblicato l’anno successivo sotto forma di piccolo saggio dal titolo Je suis une fille sans histoire seguito da Toute une moitié du monde.

Nel 2021 è diventata titolare della cattedra di scrittrice residente presso l’Institut d’études politiques de Paris.

Ha diretto, insieme al suo ex compagno Benoît Volnais, il lungometraggio, Avant l’effondrement, incentrato sulle questioni politiche ed esistenziali generate dalla crisi ecologica.

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Lara, Crystal Palace, London Photography by Raphaël Neal

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'Dark Circus' by Raphaël Neal.

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The Starry Sky Above Me (Le ciel étoilé au-dessus de ma tête), Ilan Klipper (2017)

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Raphaël Neal

Raphi

2001

http://www.raphaelneal.com

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Trouble Every Day Full HD 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐃 . 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 : Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor's wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride. . 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 ⬇️      ⬇️      ⬇️      ⬇️ . 🎬 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 : https://bit.ly/3lf6BoE . ⬆️      ⬆️      ⬆️      ⬆️ . 🗓️ Release Date : 12 November 2020 ⏰ Runtime : 101 minutes 📂 Genres : Drama, Horror, Romance 💼 Production Company  : Kinétique Inc., ARTE France Cinéma, Canal+, Dacia Films, Messaoud/a Films, ZDF, ARTE 🌎 Production Countries  : France, Germany, Japan 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Casts : Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Raphaël Neal, José Garcia, Hélène Lapiower, Marilú Marini, Aurore Clément 🏷️ Plot Keywords : rape, eroticism, vampire, male masturbation, vampirism, woman director, new french extremism

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[Video] The Divine Comedy mit "The Best Mistakes"!

Nachdem Neil Hannon sein drittes komplettes Jahrzehnt als Künstler hinter sich gebracht und das Best-Of-Album "Charmed Life - The Best Of The Divine Comedy" für den 04. Februar 2022 angekündigt hat, veröffentlicht der Songwriter nun die neue Single "The Best Mistakes" (über Divine Comedy Records).

Angeführt von erhebenden Streichern, die das neue Werk zu einer Explosion roher, ehrlicher Emotionen werden lassen, schreibt sich Neil Hannon auf "The Best Mistakes" eine kleine, eigene Erinnerung, nicht zu lange vor dem Leben und seinen Herausforderungen davonzulaufen. In dem Song thematisiert Hannon, positiv auf das Erlebte zurückzublicken, sich dabei an die Höhen und Tiefen zu erinnern, mit einem wichtigen Appell, stets aber mit der Gegenwart im Reinen zu sein: "If I had to choose between then and now I’d choose now." Passend dazu lässt das Video von Neils langjährigen Freund Raphaël Neal die lange Karriere des Nordiren Revue passieren. “It was Neil's idea to have moments from his career projected onto him. Going through 30 years of imagery was really moving - so rich in colors, costumes, stories. We were witnessing an artist's journey", führt der Regisseur aus.

“I began writing The Best Mistakes around 2007/8”, so Neil. “I got stuck after the first chorus and put it to one side. It wasn’t until I was putting together this compilation that the concept of ‘my best mistakes’ suddenly made sense. Success and failure are two sides of the same coin. You can’t have one without the other.”

Live: 02.04.2022 Köln – Gloria 04.04.2022 Berlin – Admiralspalast 05.04.2022 Hamburg - Grünspan Booking: Dreamhaus

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The power of min, max and clamp

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Introducing Microsoft Edge Preview Builds for Linux — With this release Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available for all major desktop and mobile platforms. This Linux version supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE distributions. Here’s what to expect, and how to install it.

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min(), max(), and clamp(): Three Logical CSS Functions to Use Today — If you’re looking for something reasonably simple but powerful to add to your arsenal of CSS knowledge, start here. min, max, and clamp provide some powerful capabilities that enable more responsive styling with fewer lines of code.

Una Kravets

Measure What Matters to Users, Browsers Don't Have Feelings — Page load time isn't enough to guarantee you're providing a solid user experience; your users care about perceived performance. Learn to track interactivity metrics like `firstInteraction` so you can build for impact. Your users will thank you.

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Apple Bringing Face ID and Touch ID to the Web — Multi-factor authentication has taken off online in a big way, but can often require clumsy mechanisms like text messages or third party apps to work. So Apple is bringing its native Face ID and Touch ID mechanisms to the Web on top of the Web Authentication API.

Jiewen Tan (WebKit)

Video Processing with WebCodecs — WebCodecs is an API that provides low-level access to media encoding and decoding, so you can work with components of a video stream or unmuxed chunks of encoded video or audio, say. Currently it’s in Chrome 86 only but a Mozilla developer is co-editor of the spec.

Eugene Zemtsov

The State of CSS Survey 2020 — CSS is an ever evolving beast, and this survey (now in its second year) aims to keep track of what the trends are. We’ll be sure to circle back and share the results as they will no doubt prove informative.

Raphaël Benitte & Sacha Greif

⚡️ Quick bits:

Cloudflare want you to try Cloudflare Browser Isolation, a way to run your browser sessions in a sandbox on their data centers.

Building native desktop apps for Windows? WebView2, Microsoft’s new embedded web control, is now avaialble.

You can now emulate authenticators and debug the Web Authentication API in the WebAuthn tab in Chrome 87 (currently in beta).

Microsoft is to support the Google-proposed Manifest V3 in its Edge browser (despite concerns about its impact on extensions such as ad blockers).

The US justice department is suing Google over accusations of an illegal monopoly in search and search ads.

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Preload Late-Discovered Hero Images Faster — Optimizing for Largest Contentful Paint? Addy explains how preload can be a game-changer for speeding up late-discovered hero images and resources, loaded via JavaScript.

Addy Osmani

I Want My Own Media Queries in Browsers — What if developers didn’t have to wait for browsers to support certain CSS features? Here, Kilian writes about how it would be neat to allow devs to emulate arbitrary media features for testing before the ‘real thing’ arrives.

Kilian Valkhof

Focus Management and the inert Attribute — Managing focus requires some skill and care, but is very much worth doing. The inert attribute can go a long way to making this easier to do.

Eric Bailey

The Most Useful Accessibility Testing Tools and Techniques — A list of tools the author regularly uses to make sure everything they do is accessible for folks with different abilities, “whether they are blind or holding a sandwich in their hand”.

Artem Sapegin

How To Use Face Motion To Interact With Typography — Explores using Machine Learning, variable fonts, and CSS grids to create layouts that respond to the proximity, inclination, etc, of a users face.

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How to Deploy a Vue.js Jamstack App on Netlify with Automatic Security Updates

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Layoutit Grid: An Interactive CSS Grid Generator — Can’t remember the various CSS properties to get a basic grid running? Never fear, just lay things out here and copy and paste the code (or even create a CodePen on the fly to experiment further).

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Detect GPU: Determine What Tier of Graphics Performance Users Have — Imagine user-agent detection but for the GPU. This returns information about the user’s graphics capabilities including a simple 0-3 score as to the level of rendering power available, which you could use to turn on/off extraneous visual effects. Demo here.

Tim van Scherpenzeel

15 Tools to Customize Your Terminal and Command Line — Start customizing your terminal or command prompt, and start developing more efficiently and beautifully.

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The Good Line-Height — A handy browser-based calculator for getting the perfect line-height for your type scale.

Fran Pérez

SVG Favicon Maker — An online tool to quickly build a letter based SVG favicon which are supported by most browsers, though not Safari. The ‘emoji’ variant didn’t work for me in Chrome, however.

Formito

'This Page is a Truly Naked, Brutalist HTML Quine' — A quine is a program that, with no input, produces a copy of its own source code as its output, and it’s possible with HTML too. File this under ‘fun’.

Leon Bambrick

HitCount: A Simple Modern Website Hit Counter — In case you’re ever in a “Make Your Website Look Like 1999” contest. The code is just an image tag with some optional parameters to customize the counter’s look.

HitCount

ScreenshotAPI: A Chrome-Based Pixel-Perfect Website Screenshot API — 100 screenshots per month in the free plan, then paid plans after that. Images can be downloaded or hosted on Google Cloud.

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Earthquake Off Philippine Coast Hits A Region Already On High Alert

An undersea earthquake occurred Saturday off the coast of the southern Philippines. The U.S. Geological Survey says it struck at a depth of about 38 miles and had a magnitude of 7.0. According to The Associated Press, no casualties or damage had been reported as of a few hours after the quake.

It was felt in several cities in the southern Philippines and led the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami threat – which has since been lifted — for areas along the coasts of Indonesia and the Philippines. This most recent scare, which seemed to cause little damage, is the latest seismic activity in a region reeling from disaster. On Dec. 22, a tsunami hit Indonesia and killed at least 430 people. NPR's Anthony Kuhn reported that Indonesia's seismic activity directors were faulty, which meant that residents were not properly warned. Kuhn also noted that Indonesians did not feel an earthquake, a common warning sign, before the tsunami struck. A widely shared video of a concert is one of the more unsettling illustrations of how unexpected the disaster was: The local pop-rock band Seventeen was performing at a party in Java one moment and taken by a massive wave the next. Now scientists might know why last Saturday's disaster happened. According to a statement from the European Geosciences Union, the partial collapse of Anak Krakatau, a volcano in Indonesia's Sunda Strait, may have caused the tsunami. Researcher Raphaël Paris says Anak Krakatau's instability will continue to pose a risk. In the EGU statement, Paris says, "There is a big uncertainty on the stability of the volcanic cone now and the probability for future collapses and tsunamis is perhaps non-negligible." When Anak Krakatau lost a 64-hectare portion of its west-southwest flank, tons of rocky debris fell into the sea and brought forth powerful waves. This, according to the BBC's Jonathan Amos, could have been the source. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that researchers say the volcanic cone has decreased in height from 1,108 feet to just 336 feet. Satellite images also show a significant decrease in Anak Krakatau's size. Paris was part of a team that modeled a very similar Anak Krakatau-induced tsunami back in 2012. Mike Burton, president of the EGU Division on Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, said in the EGU's statement: "The hazard scenario were therefore understood, but the management of such a hazard obviously remains a major challenge." The exact details of the tsunami's cause — the nature of the eruption that triggered the loss of the flank, for example — will not be determined until researchers can access the area of the volcano, according to the BBC's Amos. Anak Krakatau translates to "child of Krakatau." Anak's parent, Krakatau (or Krakatoa), is perhaps best known for exploding in 1883. According to Hawaii Public Radio's Neal Conan, about 100,000 people died from that eruption's direct effects and more than 35,000 others died from resulting tsunami waves. Anak Krakatau was formed from what remained of Krakatau. Less than three months ago, another tsunami in Indonesia killed at least 1,400 others. And in August, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake killed at least 460. A statement issued in October by Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Management said 1,999 natural disasters occurred in Indonesia in 2018, leaving 3,548 dead or missing. Read the full article

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Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis (2001)