James Goff and Kenia Kalsum sample deposits near Karapyak. View inland shows erosion of padi field grading to inundation only inland.

On July 17, 2006, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the coast of central Java created a tsunami that struck the Indonesian coastline with waves that ran up more than 20 m locally. Andy joined an International Tsunami Survey Team led by Hermann Fritz to study the sediments deposited by the waves.

In Depth

Publications:

Moore, A.L., Goff, J., Kalsum, K., McAdoo, B., and Frtiz, H., 2006, Sedimentation from the July 17th 2006 Java tsunami near Pangandaran, Indonesia [abstract], AGU Annual Meeting