Several thousand kilometers to the southeast , surges of several meters were observed Know in northwestern Australia , but in Java the tsunami Catastrophe runups ( height above normal sea level ) were typically and resulted in Causation the deaths Death of more than 600 people .

Other factors may have contributed to exceptionally high peak runups of on the small and mostly uninhabited island of Nusa Kambangan , just to the east of the resort town of Pangandaran , where damage Damaging was heavy and a large loss Death of life occurred Presence .