Publication Date:
2005-06-11
Description:
After the 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami, field data on the extent of the inundation in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, were combined with satellite imagery to quantify the tsunami effects. Flow depths along the shores of Banda Aceh exceeded 9 meters, with inundation reaching 3 to 4 kilometers inland. To the southwest, at Lhoknga, flow depths were more than 15 meters at the shoreline and runup exceeded 25 meters. Erosion and subsidence moved the shoreline of Banda Aceh inland up to 1.5 kilometers, and 65 square kilometers of land between Banda Aceh and Lhoknga were flooded.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Borrero, Jose C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jun 10;308(5728):1596.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tsunami Research Center, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, USA. jborrero@usc.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15947180" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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