Guest blog by Bastian Schneider (RWTH Aachen University): Tsunami hazard in Muscat, Oman
Summary:
Tsunamis are a very real threat in the Indian Ocean. Most people will immediately think of the 2004 tsunami and the Sumatra subduction zone, but the Arabian Sea has seen strong tsunamis in the past, too. In 1945, a major earthquake at the Makran Subduction Zone caused a large tsunami (Hoffmann et al., 2013a). In 2013, the on-shore Balochistan earthquake caused a submarine slide which in turn triggered a tsunami that reached the coast of Oman (Heidarzadeh & Satake, 2014;
Content analysis:
Geographic context:
Location | Country | Latitude | Longitude |
Arabian Sea | | 16.2757 | 55.5671 |
Muscat | OM | 23.6152 | 58.5912 |
Oman | OM | 20.8144 | 55.8593 |
Sumatra | ID | -0.14429 | 100.637 |
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