Revealed: what caused Indonesia’s devastating earthquake
The catastrophic tsunami that killed more than 2000 people in Palu, Indonesia, in September 2018 occurred as a culmination of unusual seismic events, report two papers published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
The event started with a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook the island of Sulawesi, starting around 80 kilometres from Palu, the provincial capital. An unusual feature of the earthquake was its supershear speed.
Published by Cosmos Magazine.
