1994 Java earthquake explained

1994 Java earthquake
Timestamp:	1994-06-02 18:17:34
Anss-Url:	usp0006djk
Isc-Event:	167105
Local-Date:	June 3, 1994
Local-Time:	01:17:37 WIB (Indonesia Western Standard Time)
Magnitude:	7.8
Depth:	18km (11miles)
Location:	-10.51°N 112.87°W
Countries Affected:	Indonesia
Intensity:	^[1]
Casualties:	250 killed

An earthquake occurred on June 3, 1994 at 01:17:37 local time (June 2, at 18:17:37 GMT) off the coast of Indonesia. The epicenter was off the eastern part of the southern Java coast, near the east end of the Java Trench.

Earthquake

This earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 7.8 in a region which is characterized as having a weak seismic coupling. Earthquakes with slow rupture velocities are the most efficient tsunami generators, and this earthquake was classified as a tsunami earthquake.

Tsunami

The tsunami reached Java and Bali, with runups up to 14m (46feet) on the east Java coast and up to 5m (16feet) on the southwestern Bali coast. More than 200 people were killed in the tsunami.^[2] The shock could be felt strongly across Bali, central and eastern Java, Lombok, and Sumbawa.^[3]

See also

• List of earthquakes in 1994
• List of earthquakes in Indonesia
• List of tsunami earthquakes
• G-Land

Further reading

• Tanioka . Yuichiro . Satake . Kenji . Tsunami generation by horizontal displacement of ocean bottom . Geophysical Research Letters . 23 . 8 . 1996 . 0094-8276 . 10.1029/96gl00736 . 861–864. 1996GeoRL..23..861T . 2027.42/95068 . free .

Notes and References

1. Book: Yoshinobu Tsuji . Fumihiko Imamura . Hideo Matsutomi . Costas E. Synolakis . Puspito T. Nanang . Jumadi . Satoshi Harada . Se Sub Han . Ken’ichi Arai . Benjamin Cook . Tsunamis: 1992–1994 . Field Survey of the East Java Earthquake and Tsunami of June 3, 1994 . 1995 . 839-854 . 10.1007/978-3-0348-7279-9_25 . https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-0348-7279-9_25 . . Basel, Switzerland. 978-3-7643-5102-1 . 129642617 .
2. Web site: Tsunamis – past and present . 2010-08-24 . 2013-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130601173310/http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/specialized/events/eastjava/eastjava.html . dead .
3. Web site: Significant Earthquakes of the World . 2017-08-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714105610/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1994.php . 2011-07-14 . dead .