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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 340, 2022
The 13th of Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery (The 13th AIWEST-DR 2021)
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| Article Number | 01002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Hazard Characterization and Modelling | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202234001002 | |
| Published online | 25 January 2022 | |
After the Indian Ocean Tsunami (IOT): Natural beach recovery, Meulaboh, Sumatra, Indonesia
1 Earth and Planetary Science Department, Birbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E7HX, England
2 Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Jalan Tgk. Abdur Rauf, Kopelma Darussalam, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia
* Corresponding author: lucy.buck.15@ucl.ac.uk
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) offers an efficient and non-invasive method of identifying and characterising subsurface features. It has previously been used to investigate both tsunami deposits and marine erosion surfaces from tsunamis as well as the structure of the structure of prograding beaches. The present study investigates beach deposits at Meulaboh, western coast of Aceh Province in Sumatra Island of Indonesia, to estimate the volume of sediment that has been deposited since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, using the GPR with an antenna of 200 MHz. Two profiles perpendicular to the coastline were collected, one 93 m long and the other 30 m long, to capture the internal profile of beach ridge deposition. From the GPR measurement the amount of 1,190,191,716 tons of sediment redeposited along the 1092 m coastline since the 2004 tsunami, with a prograding length of 73 m per year. As beaches provide a good form of tsunami protection the rapid beach recovery and the return of a large amount of sediment helps provide much needed coastal protection to the area.
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