TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Field Survey of the 1996 Irian Jaya Earthquake Tsunami in Biak Island
JO  - Natural hazards
A1  - Matsutomi, H
A1  - Shuto, Nobuo
A1  - Imamura, Fumi
A1  - Takahashi, Toru
SP  - 199
EP  - 212
VL  - 24
IS  - 3
N2  - Runup data in Biak Island and its nearby islets are described with discussions of tsunami magnitude and a few characteristics such as witnessed arrival times, wave periods and wave numbers. From an engineering viewpoint, a relation between inundation depth and current velocity on land is also described with relations between inundation depth and degree of damage to houses and between sand erosion depth and current velocity in backshore region, based on data collected from the present and past tsunamis.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0921-030X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -