Penultimate predecessors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Sumatra : stratigraphic, archeological, and historical evidence

• Main Authors: Horton, Benjamin P., Vane, Christopher H., Feener, R. Michael, Rubin, Charles M., Shen, Chuan-Chou, Ismail, Nazli, Sieh, Kerry, Daly, Patrick, McKinnon, E. Edwards, Pilarczyk, Jessica E., Chiang, Hong-Wei
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Geography::Physical geography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79433; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25048
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present stratigraphic, archeological and historical evidence for two closely timed predecessors of the giant 2004 tsunami on the northern coast of Aceh, northern Sumatra. This is the first direct evidence that a tsunami played a role in a fifteenth century cultural hiatus along the northern Sumat...