Citation

Matsutomi H, Shuto N, Imamura F, Takahashi T. Nat. Hazards 2001; 24(3): 199-212.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

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Abstract

Runup data in Biak Island and its nearby islets are described with discussions of tsunami magnitude and a few characteristics such as witnessed arrival times, wave periods and wave numbers. From an engineering viewpoint, a relation between inundation depth and current velocity on land is also described with relations between inundation depth and degree of damage to houses and between sand erosion depth and current velocity in backshore region, based on data collected from the present and past tsunamis.

Language: en