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Thorne Lay

joined in Jul 14, 2020

Professor at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA.

Lay has 1 break published.

A Ghost Tsunami without warning

On December 22, 2018, a devastating tsunami struck Sunda Strait, Indonesia, without warning in the evening. It left more than 400 dead and hundreds more injured along with the west Java and the southern Sumatra coastlines. The population did not feel any earthquake shaking to... click to read more

Lingling Ye | Professor at Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Geodynamics and Geohazards, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Thorne Lay | Professor at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA

Anak Krakatau

landslide

volcanic tsunami

flank collapse

tsunami warning

Reading time 3 min

published on Jul 14, 2020