July 2006 Java earthquake

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After an earthquake of magnitude 7.7 Mw on July 17, 2006 at 08:19:28 UTC on Sunda Trench about 170 km off Java meter high tidal waves had formed on the coast. The water boats hurled ashore and destroyed hotels and residential buildings. The most affected was the resort of Pangandaran. One week after the earthquake were counted more than 650 deaths, more than 300 people were still missing.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that a Swede was killed. He had lived in the region for many years. A Swedish tourist was treated in the hospital, his two sons, aged five and ten years were still missing. According to the Dutch consulate also died in the tsunami three Dutchmen killed. Also, a 26 -year-old Frenchwoman, who in the area made ​​holiday with her boyfriend, was swept away and killed by diplomats details of the shaft. Among the injured, according to a television report also were two Dutch and four Japanese.

The Japanese meteorological authorities had earlier warned of potentially devastating giant waves on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra. The approximately 400 kilometers south to Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands, which belong to Australia could be affected, it said. But the warning was delivered to people on Java not because the Indonesian government is not forwarded the warnings from Japan to explore the coast and there is no early warning system there.