Strengthened Indonesian Resilience – Reducing Risk from Disasters page
Palu and Donggala Working Towards Resiliency: https://stirrrd.org/2018/10/02/palu-and-donggala-working-towards-resiliency/ Strengthened Indonesian Resilience – Reducing Risk from Disasters website
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
Field survey of Palu Tsunami, 2018-09-28
Information collected from Imamura, Muhari and Arikawa’s field survey. Images before and after the event can be found on this file. Read the Report: Field survey of Palu Tsunami, 2018-09-28 (5.44 MB PDF)
Geotechnical Reconnaissance of the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake
Read the Report: Geotechnical Reconnaissance of the 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake (18.2 MB PDF)
Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT): Immediate Response to M7.5 & Tsunami, Palu-Indonesia, October 2018
Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) activated the Immediate Response and created this report collecting data from the damage in Palu, Indonesia due to the M7.5 earthquake and tsunami. Read the Report: Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT): Immediate Response to M7.5 & Tsunami, Palu-Indonesia, October 2018 (11.2 MB PDF)
Changi RHCC’S SPOT Report 10/18 for 7.5 magnitude earthquake 78 km N of Palu, Indonesia (CAA: 8 Oct 2018, 2300hrs)
According to Channel News Asia (CNA), the death toll has increased to 1,948, with 10,679 injured, 74,444 displaced and another 835 missing. The number is expected to increase as the search is still in progress. According to Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), the number of displaced people have been reduced from 74,444 to […]
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) […]