Aceh

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.

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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.  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.

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.

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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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Map of a seismic situation of cities

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