Kerusakan akibat Gempa di suatu kampung di Bantul, Jogja, 26 Mei 2006 (foto oleh Radar Jogja).

Destruction of Riangkroko, Indonesia A sandy beach is all that remains after the waves removed all trace of Riangkroko. An extremely large tsunami runup (26 m) was measured at this small rural village on Flores Island, and 137 people lost their lives to the earthquake and the tsunamis. The village was located at the mouth of the Nipah River, a small river with its northwest side facing the Flores Sea. The inundation distance from the shoreline along the river is approximately 600 m. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]

Aerial view of Riangkroko, Indonesia An aerial view of Riangkroko after the tsunami. The area inundated by the tsunami appears as bare ground. The devastation indicates that the tsunami must have been very strong to have removed almost all the vegetation and structures in the area. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]

Complete devastation at Pagaraman, Babi Island, Indonesia A view of the complete devastation of Pagaraman, on Babi Island. Due to strong earth shaking and tsunami waves, about 700 people were reported killed and more than 100 were reported missing. This area had the largest death toll of any location for this event. Eyewitnesses described gruesome scenes including human remains suspended from tree branches. Babi Island is located about five kilometers offshore of Flores Island. It has a conical shape, a two kilometer diameter, and a summit elevation of 351 m. In spite of its location close to the main island, one sounding in the narrow gap between Babi and Flores is 241 m deep. The north shore faces the Flores Sea and is protected by a wide coral reef. The south shore-where the destroyed villages were located-has a much narrower reef. Near the middle of the south shore there is a small tidal flat which separates Kampungbaru (on the west side) from Pagaraman (on the east side). Both villages were completely destroyed by the tsunamis. The tsunamis washed away everything from Pagaraman leaving only white beach sand. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]

Complete destruction at Kampungbaru, Babi Island, Indonesia The effects of the tsunami at Kampungbaru, Babi Island. This Moslem village on Babi Island was also completely destroyed. A few large pieces of structures are now scattered on the unusually wide and flattened white sandy beach and very few trees remain. Sediment, like beach sand, has been spread over about 300 m wide area of the beach. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]

Debris dump Kampungbaru, Indonesia Between the upper end of the sediment sheet and the foothills there is a dense coconut tree grove at Kampungbaru. This grove is now approximately 1.5 m lower than the beach surface. It is not known whether this lower elevation was created by subsidence following the earthquake or if it was the original topography. Regardless, this area of lower elevation is where all the debris from the village was dumped by the tsunami. The site looked and smelled like a shallow garbage dump. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]

Effects at Wuhring, Floress Island, Indonesia The effects of the tsunami at Wuhring, Flores Island. Although the tsunami heights at this location were lower than elsewhere (only about 3.5 m) the waves swept entirely over the 400 m by 200 m peninsula inundating the densely populated community of Wuhring and killing 100. Here the damage was not as severe as on Babi Island. The waves left conical sand accumulations inside the houses, and at some locations the depth of the debris was about one meter. [Photo Credit: Harry Yeh, University of Washington]