A geophysicist has highlighted the dangers of soil liquefaction, the practice of filling in the sea to expand the coastal land for more construction space,.
An old clip of a village swallowed by soil has been viewed thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside the false claim it shows the aftermath of a deadly earthquake that rocked Indonesia's Cianjur regency in 2022. In reality, the clip shows satellite imagery taken when a powerful quake razed swathes of Central Sulawesi's capital city, Palu, to the ground in