1629 Banda Sea earthquake

Natural disaster in Indonesia 1629 Banda Sea earthquake Indonesia yes August 1, 1629 Nighttime 8.2–8.8 w y -4.53 129.9 inline,title 16 m on Five (due to tsunami) The 1629 Banda Sea earthquake struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia on August 1. Its epicentre is believed to have been in the Seram Trough. A megathrust earthquake caused a 15 m on tsunami, which was recorded to have affected the Banda Islands about 30 minutes after the quake. The effects of the tsunami were reported as far as 230 km away in Ambon.Liu Zac Yung-Chun Harris Ron A. http://geology.byu.edu/home/sites/default/files/2013-liu-and-harris-1629-tsunami1.pdf Discovery of possible mega-thrust earthquake along the Seram Trough from records of 1629 tsunami in eastern Indonesian region Natural Hazards 72 3 2013 0921-030X 10.1007/s11069-013-0597-y 1311–1328 2014NatHa..72.1311L 16215328 2015-05-19 2021-11-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20211125085049/http://geology.byu.edu/home/sites/default/files/2013-liu-and-harris-1629-tsunami1.pdf dead Many trees in the Banda Islands were reported to have been uprooted.Hanna Willard Anderson Willard A. Hanna Banda: A Journey Through Indonesia's Fabled Isles of Fire and Spice https://books.google.com/books?id=UfpvAAAAMAAJ 1997 Yayasan Warisan dan Budaya Banda 112 See also List of earthquakes in Indonesia List of historical earthquakes 1852 Banda Sea earthquake References Martin S. S. Cummins P. R. Meltzner A. J. Gempa Nusantara: A Database of 7380 Macroseismic Observations for 1200 Historical Earthquakes in Indonesia from 1546 to 1950 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 112 6 2022 0037-1106 10.1785/0120220047 2958–2980 2022BuSSA.112.2958M 253365854 10356/166257 free Further reading Harris Ron Major Jonathan Waves of destruction in the East Indies: the Wichmann catalogue of earthquakes and tsunami in the Indonesian region from 1538 to 1877 Geological Society, London, Special Publications 441 1 2016 0305-8719 10.1144/sp441.2 9–46 216996915 Category:1620s earthquakes Category:1629 disasters Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Indonesia Category:Banda Islands Category:1629 in Southeast Asia