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Field Survey of the Indian Ocean Tsunami on India’s coast between Chennai/Madras and Pondicherry, and in Kenya north of Mombasa
India and Kenya Expedition of the University of Muenster, Germany, and the German Research Foundation, February 13 to March 4, 2005
Heinrich Bahlburg and Robert Weiß
Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Geologie/Sedi/Welcome_e.html
In Kenya, the tsunami hit the coast at 1:00 pm, shortly after low tide. Run-up distance on relatively steep beaches at Ngomeni which are unprotected by reefs was c. 45 m, the run-up height 3 m, the flow depth was probably less than 1 m.
Run-up heights and distances north of Mombasa, Kenya.
left: run-up debris accumulation at Shauri Mayo beach; right: erosive tsunami deposit at Ngomeni beach
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