27 October 2010

The Mantawai islands tsunami and the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia

Indonesia is today trying to deal simultaneously with two substantial natural hazards of a rather different nature.  The earthquake on Monday 25th October triggered a localised tsunami in the Mentawai islands, close to the epicentre, the Reuters Alertnet reports killed 108 people and has left a further 502 people missing.  The data on the earthquake available on the USGS website suggest that this was a Mw=7.7 event at a depth of …

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