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Catastrophe Report 9
February 24th – July 25th 2006 |
Tsunami - Indonesia
| Territory: |
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Indonesia |
| Region: |
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Java |
| Date: |
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17 July 2006 |
| Event: |
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Tsunami |
| Impact: |
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As of July 21st, the death toll stands at 533,
with 308 missing and close to a thousand injured. The number
of displaced persons is set at 61,352, the great majority from
the towns of Ciamis (more than 43,000) and Tasikmalaya (over
12,000), and the balance from Cilacap and Kebumen. The total
number of buildings destroyed or severely damaged is put at
more than 1,000, with over 1,500 fishing boats destroyed, heavily
damaged or swept away. Infrastructure is also badly affected,
with five bridges destroyed and more than 12 km of road lost.
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| Summary: |
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A moment magnitude 7.7 submarine earthquake
occurred close to the south coast of Java at 15.24 local time,
near the junction between the Australian Plate to the south
and the Sunda Plate to the north. The USGS placed the quake
at the relatively shallow depth of 48.6 km, and at a location
240 km SSW of the city of Tasikmalaya, and 358 km south of the
capital Jakarta. More than 20 aftershocks followed the main
shock, with two exceeding magnitude 6. The main quake triggered
a tsunami that impacted along a 200 km stretch of West Java’s
south coast, in the region of the beach resort of Pangandaran.
Wave height estimates range upwards from 2 m to 7 m, with reported
inundation distances of up to 800 m inland in places. A similar
earthquake in the region in 1994 generated a tsunami up to 13
m high that took more than 200 lives. The Pacific Tsunami Warning
Centre in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning 12 minutes after the
earthquake, but no warning was transmitted to the threatened
areas by Indonesian authorities. The tsunami arrived at the
coast around 55 minutes after the earthquake. |
| Data sources: |
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usqgaf.php
ReliefWeb
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=TS-2006-000087-IDN&rc=3
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| Additional sources:
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The Jakarta Post
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20060720.B04&irec=3
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| Image: |
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Image from the IKONOS satellite shows the ‘tide
mark’ of debris left following retreat of the Java tsunami.
Courtesy: CHECK COPYRIGHT ON THE SITE
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17342 |
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