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The Undisturbed Trench
In this timeline the seismic sequence that would have ruptured the Palu-Koro fault system and triggered catastrophic shaking, liquefaction and a tsunami across Palu Bay never occurred, and the broader Indian Ocean subduction margin has remained anomalously stable since. The absence reshaped disaster policy across the Indonesian archipelago, delaying reforms that elsewhere were only enacted after mass casualty events.
Diverged 2018 · “The Sulawesi earthquake does not occur, and the Indian Ocean subduction zone remains stable.”
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TodayPalu is now one of central Sulawesi's fastest-growing cities, its bay ringed by unreinforced coastal development and its former liquefaction-risk zones built over with housing estates. Indonesian disaster policy remains organized around the memory of Aceh in 2004 rather than any Sulawesi event, and a vocal minority of seismologists warn that the quiescence represents dangerous, unreleased strain rather than genuine stability.
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