Eyewitness accounts of the impact of the 1998 aitape tsunami, and of other tsunamis in living memory, in the region from Jayapura, Indonesia, to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 433-452

  Joku, Gorden N ^a,b   Davies, Jocelyn M ^a   Davies, Hugh L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^b PT Minorco Services Indonesia   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Aitape; Indonesia (Papua Province); Papua New Guinea; Seiche; Tsunami; Tsunamis 1940 1999

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; IRIAN JAYA; JAYAPURA; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VANIMO; WEST SEPIK;

EID: 34147127751     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0167-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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