Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

• Main Authors: Rubin, Charles M., Horton, Benjamin Peter, Sieh, Kerry, Pilarczyk, Jessica E., Daly, Patrick, Ismail, Nazli, Parnell, Andrew C.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Seismic Zone; Sequence Stratigraphy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88617; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44664
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caught millions of coastal residents and the scientific community off-guard. Subsequent research in the Indian Ocean basin has identified prehistoric tsunamis, but the timing and recurrence intervals of such events are uncertain. Here we present an extraordi...