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Why does Singapore get Tsunamis?

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Singapore is surrounded by water and can therefore be affected by a tsunami. However, the megathrust tsunamis like the one that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004 will not affect Singapore: the Indonesian archipelago acts as a barrier that protects the city from such events. read more

Nonetheless, tsunamis generated by submarine landslides or eruptions in the Sunda shelf can potentially affect Singapore. That is why scientists investigate plausible past tsunami deposits on the shores of the South China Sea and the Java Sea. read more

Here is a map of ASEAN Now Singapore is shielded from open ocean from most directions - south and west by Sumatra, east by Kalimantan, north by Malaysia/Thailand and north east by the Philippines. read more

Well, the answer for why it didn't hit Singapore is in the post (the quake struck the West side of Sumatra and Singapore is on the East side, so it was protected by Sumatra). I included Australia in the title because at the time, it was a surprise that the tsunami traveled all the way to India and Africa, but not the shorter distance to Australia. read more

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