"Indonesia tsunami sensors missed huge waves: Official
JAKARTA: Indonesia's geophysics agency lifted a tsunami warning 34 minutes after it was first issued following a major earthquake that sent huge waves crashing into the northeastern coast of Sulawesi island, killing hundreds and leaving thousands more homeless.
The 7.5 magnitude quake and tsunami, which hit the city of Palu about 1,500 km (940 miles) from Jakarta and further along the coastline, killed at least 384 people. Officials said on Saturday the death toll was likely to rise.
Baptiste Gombert, a geophysics researcher at University of Oxford, said it was "surprising" the quake had generated a tsunami.
Friday's quake was recorded as a "strike-slip" event where neighbouring tectonic plates move horizontally against each other, rather than vertically, which is what usually generates a tsunami.
"There is some speculation that there was a landslide under the sea which displaced a lot of water and caused the tsunami," he said, adding the narrow bay may have concentrated the force of the waves as they moved toward the shore.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the disaster agency, told reporters his team had been "preparing to send public warnings that were easy to understand" when the tsunami warning was "suddenly ended"."
Science has been trying hard to match nature. Sometimes we get it right n saved lives. Sometimes we get it wrong n lives were lost. Will it ever by 100%, or even 90%, unlikely.
Yet when bad things happened hopefully the uninvolved will b rational n look at the facts n focused on what cam be learned to minimise opportunities for errors when best reasonable efforts had been taken by those responsible.
Other than this, fixing blames of why one didn't do this or that that weren't obvious without the 20/20 perfect hindsight, were simoky unhelpful!!
RIP to the dead. Condolences to the surviving family members n friends. Speedy recovery to the injured n Palu. N lastly, blessed the rescuers n security folks!!
JAKARTA: Indonesia's geophysics agency lifted a tsunami warning 34 minutes after it was first issued following a major earthquake that sent huge waves crashing into the northeastern coast of Sulawesi island, killing hundreds and leaving thousands more homeless.
The 7.5 magnitude quake and tsunami, which hit the city of Palu about 1,500 km (940 miles) from Jakarta and further along the coastline, killed at least 384 people. Officials said on Saturday the death toll was likely to rise.
Baptiste Gombert, a geophysics researcher at University of Oxford, said it was "surprising" the quake had generated a tsunami.
Friday's quake was recorded as a "strike-slip" event where neighbouring tectonic plates move horizontally against each other, rather than vertically, which is what usually generates a tsunami.
"There is some speculation that there was a landslide under the sea which displaced a lot of water and caused the tsunami," he said, adding the narrow bay may have concentrated the force of the waves as they moved toward the shore.
Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the disaster agency, told reporters his team had been "preparing to send public warnings that were easy to understand" when the tsunami warning was "suddenly ended"."
Science has been trying hard to match nature. Sometimes we get it right n saved lives. Sometimes we get it wrong n lives were lost. Will it ever by 100%, or even 90%, unlikely.
Yet when bad things happened hopefully the uninvolved will b rational n look at the facts n focused on what cam be learned to minimise opportunities for errors when best reasonable efforts had been taken by those responsible.
Other than this, fixing blames of why one didn't do this or that that weren't obvious without the 20/20 perfect hindsight, were simoky unhelpful!!
RIP to the dead. Condolences to the surviving family members n friends. Speedy recovery to the injured n Palu. N lastly, blessed the rescuers n security folks!!
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