Archaeological evidence that a late 14th-century tsunami devastated the coast of northern Sumatra and redirected history

Patrick Daly; Kerry Sieh; Yew Seng Tai; Edmund Edwards McKinnon; Andrew C Parnell; Ardiansyah; Michael Feener; Nazli Ismail; Nizamuddin; Jedrzej Majewski

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What You Should Know About Tsunamis

Today is World Tsunami Awareness Day. It is a timely opportunity to create greater global awareness about tsunamis as a geological hazard.

Improvements in the paleotsunami record along the Aceh coast of Sumatra

Paleotsunami studies have shown that the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could have been anticipated.

Archaeological evidence that a late 14th-century tsunami devastated the coast of northern Sumatra and redirected history

Daly P, Sieh K, Tai Y S, McKinnon EEdwards, Parnell AC, Ardiansyah, Feener M, Ismail N, Nizamuddin, Majewski J. 2019. Archaeological evidence that a late 14th-century tsunami devastated the coast of northern Sumatra and redirected history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

How a Powerful Tsunami Shaped the History of Aceh

I went to Banda Aceh, Indonesia in 2006 to help assess the impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami upon the region’s rich cultural heritage. The scale of destruction caused by the tsunami was staggering.

Sediment transport processes under tsunami waves – a case study of tsunami deposits in a coastal cave in Aceh, Sumatra

The final goal of the on-going three-year project is to develop a process-based, coupled hydrodynamic and morphological model for simulating sediment transport and deposit under tsunami waves.

Aceh Geohazards Project: Interaction of Geohazards and Settlements through the Past Millennium, Aceh, Indonesia

The Aceh Geohazards Project combines geology, geomorphology, history and archaeology to better understand the past occurrence of tsunami in Aceh, and the extent to which such events might have impa

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Aceh

What You Should Know About Tsunamis

Improvements in the paleotsunami record along the Aceh coast of Sumatra

Archaeological evidence that a late 14th-century tsunami devastated the coast of northern Sumatra and redirected history

How a Powerful Tsunami Shaped the History of Aceh

Sediment transport processes under tsunami waves – a case study of tsunami deposits in a coastal cave in Aceh, Sumatra

Aceh Geohazards Project: Interaction of Geohazards and Settlements through the Past Millennium, Aceh, Indonesia

Map of a seismic situation of cities