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The '''1994 Java earthquake''' occurred on June 3 at {{tooltip|01:17:37 local time|June 2, at 18:17:37 GMT}} off the coast of [[Indonesia]]. The epicenter was off the eastern part of the southern [[Java]] coast, near the east end of the [[Java Trench]].<ref>{{citation|title=Damage, conditions of east Java tsunami of 1994 analyzed|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/pdf/23damconejavtsun.pdf|first=C.|last=Synolakis|first2=F.|last2=Imamura|first3=Y.|last3=Tsuji|first4=H.|last4=Matsutomi|first5=S.|last5=Tinti|first6=B.|last6=Cook|first7=Y. P.|last7=Chandra|first8=M.|last8=Usman|year=1995|journal=[[Eos (magazine)|Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union]]|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]]|volume=76|number=26|page=257|doi=10.1029/95eo00150|bibcode=1995EOSTr..76..257S}}</ref>

==Earthquake==

This earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 7.8 in a region which is characterized as having a weak seismic coupling.<ref>{{citation|title=The Seismogenic Zone of Subduction Thrust Faults|chapter=Anomalous Earthquake Ruptures at Shallow Depths on Subduction Zone Megathrusts|url=http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~thorne/TL.pdfs/LB_megathrust_SEIZE.pdf|first=T.|last=Lay|first2=S.|last2=Bilek|year=2012|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|pages=488, 489}}</ref> Earthquakes with slow rupture velocities are the most efficient tsunami generators, and this earthquake was classified as a [[tsunami earthquake]].<ref>{{citation|title=Shallow subduction zone earthquakes and their tsunamigenic potential|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000GeoJI.142..684P|first=J.|last=Polet|first2=H.|last2=Kanamori|authorlink2=Hiroo Kanamori|year=2000|journal=Geophysical Journal International|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]]|volume=142|issue=3|pages=684, 685|doi=10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00205.x|bibcode=2000GeoJI.142..684P}}</ref>

==Tsunami==

The tsunami reached Java and [[Bali]], with runups up to {{convert|14|m|abbr=on}} on the east Java coast and up to {{convert|5|m|abbr=on}} on the southwestern Bali coast. More than 200 people were killed in the tsunami.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/specialized/events/eastjava/eastjava.html | title=Tsunamis – past and present}}</ref> The shock could be felt strongly across Bali, central and eastern Java, [[Lombok]], and [[Sumbawa]].<ref>https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1994.php</ref>

== See also ==