2006/12/01 by Charles J. Ammon, Hiroo Kanamori, Thorne Lay +1 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #earthquake and tectonic studies #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Seismology #Geology #Tsunami earthquake #Aftershock #Trench #Java #Subduction #Fault (geology) #Thrust fault #Foreshock #Thrust #Tectonics
paper · doi:10.1029/2006gl028005
openalex publication_date 2006/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
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 significantly with seismic wave period: very long‐period signals (300–500+ s) indicate a seismic moment of 6.7 × 10 20 Nm (M w = 7.8), M S (∼20 s) = 7.2, m b (∼1 s) = 6.2, while shaking intensities (3–10 Hz) were ≤ MMIV. The large tsunami relative to M S characterizes this event as a tsunami earthquake. Like previous tsunami earthquakes, the Java event had an unusually low rupture speed of 1.0–1.5 km/s, and occurred near the up‐dip edge of the subduction zone thrust fault. Most large aftershocks involved normal faulting. The rupture propagated ∼200 km along the trench, with several pulses of shorter period seismic radiation superimposed on a smooth background rupture with an overall duration of ∼185 s.