| After arriving in the town of Omoa, we recovered
from sea sickness with a big lunch (!). Our first objective was
to survey the school house and the beach in Omoa. We met with
teachers at the school who witnessed the waves. The inundation
line and locations of our transects are shown in the figure below. |
| The headmistress of the school reported that
she noticed the wave after hearing a loud noise from the sea.
She looked up to see a surge of water entering into the school
yard. The wave appeared to be coming from a southerly direction.
The surge came across the yard, hit the walls of the school,
flooded through doorways and over the window sills in to the
classrooms. The brunt of the surge continued northward, across
the soccer field destroying the canoe shacks and surging up the
small creek. The measured runup was over 2 m at the school and on
the soccer field. (transect 1 above) The runup at transects 3,4,
and 5 were succesively larger with water marks of over 6 m at
transect #3. Some still images taken of the damage can be found
here |
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