{"id":28986,"date":"2018-10-19T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=28986"},"modified":"2018-10-19T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:18:51","slug":"landslide-tsunamis-sulawesi-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/10\/19\/landslide-tsunamis-sulawesi-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslide tsunamis from the Sulawesi earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Landslide tsunamis from the Sulawesi earthquake<\/h4>\n<p>Our understanding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2018\/10\/03\/palu-landslides-1\/\">Sulawesi earthquake<\/a> continues to improve as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/about\/\">more information becomes available<\/a>.\u00a0 This has shown Twitter at its very best, with a range of people bringing different expertise, and techniques to bear on the problem of what has proven to be a very complex event.\u00a0 I would like to recommend in particular <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TTremblingEarth\">Austin Elliott<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OLjohnel\">John O&#8217;Leary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XiaohuaXu1\">Xiaohua Xu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricFielding\">Eric Fielding<\/a>\u00a0 and (most impressive of all) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SotisValkan\">Sotiris Valkaniotis<\/a>, all of whom have been very proactive in interpreting and synthesising the data, and making the information available online.<\/p>\n<p>New videos continue to appear on Youtube.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61ItBglP-YM\">One is particularly interesting<\/a>, taken from a boat located just offshore when the tsunami struck:-<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61ItBglP-YM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much in this video that it is hard to know where to start.\u00a0 The video opens with a view roughly southwards (corrected from earlier version) up the bay, showing an enormous landslide generated displacement wave from the western side of the bay:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28993\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28993\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-1-e1539935067851.jpg\" alt=\"Sulawesi earthquake\" width=\"640\" height=\"376\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide tsunami from the Sulawesi earthquake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61ItBglP-YM\">Still from a video on Youtube.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The view then switches to the east side, where another landslide tsunami has been generated:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28996\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28996\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28996\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-2-e1539935233992.jpg\" alt=\"Sulawesi earthquake\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A second landslide tsunami generated by the Sulawesi earthquake. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61ItBglP-YM\">Still from a video on Youtube.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, as the camera pans from one to the other, a third wave, generated from the eastern side of the bay, can also be seen.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in the background the multiple dust plumes generated by landslides in the hills can be seen:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28998\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28998\" class=\"wp-image-28998\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sulawesi earthquake\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-3.jpg 1211w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-3-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-3-1024x513.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Multiple dust clouds generated by landslides triggered by the Sulawesi earthquake.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=61ItBglP-YM\">Still from a video on Youtube.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TTremblingEarth\/status\/1052949574703288322\">Austin Elliott managed to tie down the location of the boat<\/a> to -0.8303, 119.8133, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OLjohnel\/status\/1053103947047550976\">John O&#8217;Leary confirmed<\/a> that there was a landslide at that point.<\/p>\n<p>This video aligns nicely with the remarkable video taken by a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GerryS\/status\/1045716841509703680\">pilot of an aircraft that had just left Palu airport when the earthquake struck.<\/a>\u00a0This video also shows the generation of landslide tsunamis by the Sulawesi earthquake:-<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29004\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29004\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29004\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-4.jpg\" alt=\"Sulawesi earthquake\" width=\"435\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-4.jpg 435w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2018\/10\/18_10-tsunami-4-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A landslide generated by the Sulawesi earthquake. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GerryS\/status\/1045716841509703680\">Still from a video tweeted by Gerry Soejatman.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>We have never had such a detailed and nuanced view of the way that coastal landslides generate local tsunamis during an earthquake.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has appeared on Youtube showing the multiple landslide tsunamis generated by the Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on 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