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 (46ft) on the east Java coast and up to 5m (16ft) on the southwestern Bali coast. More than 200 people were killed in the tsunami. The shock could be felt strongly across Bali, central and eastern Java, Lombok, and Sumbawa.

See also

Further reading

  • Tanioka, Yuichiro; Satake, Kenji (1996). "Tsunami generation by horizontal displacement of ocean bottom". Geophysical Research Letters. 23 (8): 861–864. Bibcode:. doi:. hdl:. ISSN.

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