Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

NASA Event Page

September 28, 2018 M7.5: https://disasters.nasa.gov/sulawesi-island-indonesia-earthquake-and-tsunami-2018

USAID Event Page

September 28, 2018 M7.5: https://www.usaid.gov/crisis/indonesia

Earthquake Report: Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia

This area of Indonesia is dominated by a left-lateral (sinistral) strike-slip plate boundary fault system. Sulawesi is bisected by the Palu-Kola / Matano fault system. These faults appear to be an extension of the Sorong fault, the sinistral strike-slip fault that cuts across the northern part of New Guinea. There have been a few earthquakes […]

Tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia, triggered by earthquake, landslide, or both

We do know that there was an earthquake with strong ground shaking, which is what we consider to be the warning of a possible tsunami: the ground shaking. The actual tsunami run-up elevations are yet to be determined in a quantitative manner. In the coming weeks post tsunami survey teams will collect these important data […]

News Articles

A Tsunami didn’t destroy these 1,747 homes. It was the ground itself, flowing by The New York Time (October 3, 2018) At center of Indonesia’s quake-tsunami devastation, scared survivors and limited options to leave by The Washington Post (October 2, 2018) Before, after images show villages wiped away in deadly Indonesian earthquake, tsunami by CNN (October 1, 2018) […]

USGS Event Page

September 28, 2018 M7.5: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000h3p4/executive#executive