17 July 1998, Mw 7.0, Papua New Guinea

 

1) Field Survey
  • International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST) (Website)
    • Preliminary Report (Website)
    • Maximum Runup (Plot & Table)
    • 1998.7.17 PNG Tsunami Survey Photo (Japan
            National Defense Academy) (Website)
  • University of Papua New Guinea, Geology Department
    • Aitape tsunami - First map of the wave (Website)
    • Earth Talk - November 17,1998 (The Events of 17
            July at Sissano Mission) (Website)
    • Learning from the Aitape Tsunami (Website)
            (PDF, 671 KB)
    • The Impact of the 1998 Aitape Tsunami at Jayapura,
            Indonesia (Website) (PDF, 99 KB)
    • The Aitape 1998 tsunami: Reconstructing the event
            from interviews and field mapping (Website)
  • International Tsunami Survey Team - 2
    • Preliminary Analysis of Sedimentary Deposits from
            the 1998 Papua New Guinea (PNG) Tsunami 
            (USGS) (Website)
2) Sea Level
3) Seismic
  • USGS Event Page (Website)       

  • Descriptive Model of the July 17, 1998 Papua New
          Guinea Tsunami (USGS) (Website)
5) Bathymetry and Topopgraphy
  • Descriptive Model of the July 17, 1998 Papua New
          Guinea Tsunami (USGS) (Website)

  • Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory
          (NCTR) (GIF, 99 KB)
6) Videos
  • Papua New Guinea Earthquakes and Tsunamis (video),
          17 July 1998, 0849 UTC, Mw 7.0 (ITIC) (Website)
7) Other
  • 1998 Tsunami Overview (ITIC) (PDF, 432 KB)

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