The JATWC is thus able to issue tsunami bulletins within 20 minutes of the origin time of the earthquake. The Bureau of Meteorology issues advice and warnings on identified tsunami threat to emergency management agencies and the public using procedures similar to those used for warnings of other severe weather or hazardous events.
Procedures include:. What is a tsunami? How do tsunami differ from regular waves? What causes tsunami? Earthquakes Most tsunami are caused by large earthquakes on the sea floor when slabs of rock move past each other suddenly, causing the overlying water to move. The largest run-up resulted from the Java tsunami that was recorded at 7.
The tsunami that reach the Australia coast at Steep Point on 17 July was generated by a magnitude 7. The tsunami caused widespread erosion of roads and sand dunes, extensive vegetation damage and destroyed several campsites up to metres inland.
The tsunami also transported a 4WD vehicle ten metres. Fish, starfish, corals and sea urchins were deposited on roads and sand dunes well above the regular high-tide mark. Further north in the Onslow-Exmouth region in June , tsunami waves travelled inland to a point four metres above sea level and washed metres inland after appearing out of a calm sea.
Both tsunami were generated by earthquakes in Indonesia. In May , a magnitude 9. The event generated tsunami waves of just under one metre at the Fort Denison tide gauge in Sydney Harbour. The tsunami in northern Papua New Guinea was caused by an earthquake that is believed to have triggered an undersea landslide.
The eruption of Krakatau volcano in Indonesia unleashed a series of devastating tsunami that resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of lives.
What is Geoscience Australia's role in reducing risk to Australians from tsunami? Geoscience Australia: develops an understanding of natural hazards and community exposure to support risk mitigation and community resilience provides authoritative, independent information and advice to the Australian Government and other stakeholders to support risk mitigation and community resilience maintains and improves systems for effective natural disaster preparedness, response and recovery contributes to Australia's overseas development program.
Geoscience Australia identifies and characterises the triggering source for a tsunami to initiate the tsunami warning chain supports international efforts for the Indian Ocean tsunami warning and mitigation system IOTWMS. In particular, the JATWC is one of three official Regional Tsunami Service Providers TSP for IOTWMS contributes data to the Pacific Tsunami Warning System for tsunami warnings in the South West Pacific develops national-scale offshore hazard maps as a fundamental input to assessing the local tsunami hazard and impact assesses the potential impact of tsunami on coastal communities in collaboration with state and territory emergency services supports national efforts to manage the potential impacts of tsunami, for example through participation in the Australian Tsunami Advisory Group ATAG collaborates nationally and internationally to enhance the tsunami hazard risk modelling methods.
Roles in the JATWC Geoscience Australia's role in the JATWC is two-fold: to detect earthquakes that have the potential to generate tsunami that can impact Australia's coastline, and advise the Bureau of Meteorology of this potential within 10 minutes of the earthquake occurring to undertake tsunami risk studies to assist local and state organisations in planning for tsunami events. The Bureau of Meteorology's role is also two-fold: to use its network of sea level monitoring equipment, including coastal tide gauges and tsunameters deep ocean tsunami sensors , and tsunami propagation models to confirm the existence of a tsunami and estimate its likely impact at the Australian coast to issue the relevant tsunami warnings and bulletins for Australia and external territories as required.
Procedures include: distributing tsunami bulletins and warnings to the media, key agencies such as the state and territory emergency services, local councils, port authorities, police and the public working with media organisations across Australia to inform the public in the case of a tsunami event maintaining tsunami bulletin and warning distribution lists at each of the Bureau of Meteorology's state and territory Regional Forecasting Centres.
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Meet the people trying to help. Landslides Landslides can happen on the seafloor, just like on land. Volcanic eruptions Tsunami initiated by volcanic eruptions are less common. They occur in several ways: destructive collapse of coastal, island and underwater volcanoes which result in massive landslides pyroclastic flows, which are dense mixtures of hot blocks, pumice, ash and gas, plunging down volcanic slopes into the ocean and pushing water outwards a caldera volcano collapsing after an eruption causing overlying water to drop suddenly.
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