Tsunami Effects along the Western Australian coastline

By Brian Gaull

In order to improve tsunami modelling in the Indian Ocean, Geoscience Australia contracted Guria Consulting to collect and collate as much (mainly tsunami runup) information as possible along the W.A. coastline in the aftermath of the Sumatran Tsunami (26th December 2004). The resultant trip concentrated on the main towns between Port Hedland in the northwest to Augusta in the southwest corner and was completed during the period September 2005 and April 2006…

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