";s:4:"text";s:1459:" The 17 July 2006 Java earthquake involved thrust faulting in the Java trench and excited a deadly tsunami (∼5–8 m) that inundated the southern coast of Java. The earthquake's size estimates vary si... [3] We analyze Rayleigh and body waves of the 2006 Java event and find that rupture was unusually long (∼185 s) and propagated slowly (1.0–1.5 … The 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami occurred on July 17 at 15:19:27 local time along a subduction zone off the coast of west and central Java, a large and densely populated island in the Indonesian archipelago.
A major earthquake A major earthquake (magnitude 7.8) on 2 June 1994 generated a tsunami that killed more than 200 people. The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at 05:54 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging). ).
On 27 May 2006, a shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake near the city of Yogyakarta in central Java killed more than 6,000 people and displaced more than 200,000.