Dongxia Sun

Geological Records of a 1000-Yr-Old Extreme Tsunami Event Revealed by Drill Cores in Qiongzhou Strait

In AD 1076, a super tsunami hit the South China Sea islands and the coasts of Guangdong and Vietnam. However, the impact on Hainan Island, situated farther from the tsunami source, remains unclear. Tsunami modeling indicates that seismic tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes in th...