17 July 2006, Mw 7.7, South of Java, Indonesia

At 08:19 (15:19 local time) on 17 July 2006 an earth-quake of magnitude 7.7 occured in the Indian Ocean, approximately 355 km south of Jakarta and about 200 km south of Java, Indonesia, triggering a local tsunami which hit a 300 km stretch of coast along southern Java. Summaries of surveys follow in the next section. This was a ‘slow earthquake’, meaning that the rupture occurred more slowly and took longer than in a normal earthquake.