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July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunami
Web Link Compilation

Field Survey Data

• International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST)
  
  • Preliminary Report
    
  • Maximum Runup
  • Plot
  • Table
    
  • Photos
  • University of Southern California
    Dept. Civil Engineering
  • Japan National Defense Academy
    Dept. Civil Engineering
    
• University of Papua New Guinea
  Geology Department
  
  • Map of Wave
    Events at Sissano Mission
  • Learning from the Aitape Tsunami
  • The Impact of the 1998 Aitape Tsunami at Jayapura, Indonesia
  • The Aitape 1998 tsunami: Reconstructing the event from interviews and field mapping.
    
• International Tsunami Survey Team - 2 (ITST-2)
  
  • Preliminary Report on Tsunami Sedimentation
    U.S. Geological Survey

Sea Level Data

• U.S. National Oceanic and Administration
• National Tidal Facility
  The Flinders University of South Australia
  
• Water Cycle Change and Impacts Laboratory
  Japan National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

Seismic Data

• Tsunami Laboratory Russian Academy of Sciences
  
• U.S. Geological Survey Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Division

Model Simulations

• Japan Meteorological Agency
  Meteorological Research Institute
• Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
• U.S. Geological Survey, Page 1 - Page 2
  Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Division
• National Tidal Facility
  The Flinders University of South Australia

Bathymetry and Topography

• Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC)
  South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC),
  Papua New Guinea
• U.S. Geological Survey
  Western Region Coastal and Marine Geology Division
• Port Moresby Geophysical Observatory, Papua New Guinea

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