Last week, a major disaster struck Indonesia. An estimated more than 10,000 landslides struck in a 24 hour timespan, occurring alongside some of the worst flooding Sumatra has even seen. This was all due to an incredibly rare cyclone, as these are surprisingly uncommon in Sumatra. Today's video discusses this disaster as I thought it was not getting the attention it deserved as an important news story. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Modified version of an image by U.S. Geological Survey (Data Owner), Petersen, Raymond D. III (U.S. Marine Corps) (Photographer), "Aerial view of mudslide. Leyte, Philippines. 2006", USGS Denver Library Photographic Collection, Public Domain, https://library.usgs.gov/photo/index.html#/item/672e31d9d34ea9e450891793. Note: This thumbnail image is from a Philippines landslide in 2006. I am using it to represent what a landslide caused by heavy rainfall looks like until I can license a relevant image from the disaster area in Indonesia. None of the non-satellite photos or videos in this image show actual footage from the disaster area in Indonesia. They are stock footage substituted to represent similar looking damage. NASA EOSDIS Worldview satellite imagery Copyright © 2012-2025 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Associated license for NASA EOSDIS Worldview: https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview/blob/main/LICENSE.md We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at geologyhubyt@gmail.com and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Terra / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ [2] U.S. Geological Survey [3] USGS Denver Library Photographic Collection [4] Glen Fergus, 2015, Article link: http://gergs.net/all_palaeotemps/, Photo link: https://i0.wp.com/gergs.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/All_palaeotemps.png, CC BY 4.0 0:00 A Major Disaster 0:19 1000s of Landslides 2:13 Typical Cyclone Paths 3:12 Mudslides 3:37 Cyclone Path 4:24 NOT Caused by Deforestation