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SUBMITTER: Ye L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6962046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20200115 3
On 22 December 2018, a devastating tsunami struck Sunda Strait, Indonesia without warning, leaving 437 dead and thousands injured along the western Java and southern Sumatra coastlines. Synthetic aperture radar and broadband seismic observations demonstrate that a small, <~0.2 km<sup>3</sup> landslide on the southwestern flank of the actively erupting volcano Anak Krakatau generated the tsunami. The landslide did not produce strong short-period seismic waves; thus, precursory ground shaking did ...[more]