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Extreme runup from the 17 July 2006 Java tsunami

2007; American Geophysical Union; Volume: 34; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1029/2007gl029404

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Hermann M. Fritz, Widjo Kongko, Andrew Moore, Brian G. McAdoo, James Goff, C. B. Harbitz, Burak Uslu, Nikos Kalligeris, Debora Suteja, Kenia Kalsum, В. В. Титов, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Hamzah Latief, Eko Budi Santoso, S U Sujoko, Dodi Djulkarnaen, Haris Sunendar, Costas E. Synolakis,

Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

The 17 July 2006 magnitude M w 7.8 earthquake off the south coast of western Java, Indonesia, generated a tsunami that effected over 300 km of coastline and killed more than 600 people, with locally focused runup heights exceeding 20 m. This slow earthquake was hardly felt on Java, and wind waves breaking masked any preceding withdrawal of the water from the shoreline, making this tsunami difficult to detect before impact. An International Tsunami Survey Team was deployed within one week and the investigation covered more than 600 km of coastline. Measured tsunami heights and run‐up distributions were uniform at 5 to 7 m along 200 km of coast; however there was a pronounced peak on the south coast of Nusa Kambangan, where the tsunami impact carved a sharp trimline in a forest at elevations up to 21 m and 1 km inland. Local flow depth exceeded 8 m along the elevated coastal plain between the beach and the hill slope. We infer that the focused tsunami and runup heights on the island suggest a possible local submarine slump or mass movement.