Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

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

  • Charles M. Rubin,
  • Benjamin P. Horton,
  • Kerry Sieh,
  • Jessica E. Pilarczyk,
  • Patrick Daly,
  • Nazli Ismail,
  • Andrew C. Parnell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16019
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Tsunamis can be an extremely hazardous event, but understanding their occurrence through past records remains challenging. Here, the authors document tsunami occurrence from a 7,400 year old record of tsunami deposits in a cave in Indonesia, helping us to reconstruct the frequency of earthquakes in the region.