%O cited By 0; Conference of 3rd International Conference on Civil, offshore and Environmental Engineering, ICCOEE 2016 ; Conference Date: 15 August 2016 Through 17 August 2016; Conference Code:180169
%K Environmental engineering; Forestry; Ocean currents; Offshore oil well production; Risk assessment; Tsunamis, Coastal area; Coastal protection; Current status; Earthquake data; Exposed to; Indian Ocean Tsunami; Mangrove forest; Wave impacts, Shore protection
%T Tsunami risk assessment: How safe is Malaysia?
%J Engineering Challenges for Sustainable Future - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil, offshore and Environmental Engineering, ICCOEE 2016
%X The effectiveness of vegetation as coastal protection was evidenced during the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004. Sufficiency of mangrove forest as natural protection against tsunami along Malaysia�s coastline is thus of a great concern. This paper presents the assessment of the overall trend of tsunami occurrence and highlight the level of tsunami exposure for Malaysia. This paper also describes the current status of mangrove forest along west coast of Malaysia in reducing the wave impact. Analysis of global tsunami and earthquake data shows that Malaysia is potentially vulnerable to future tsunami impact. Malaysia had a varying width of mangrove forest distribution which is hoped to protect the coastal area. However, with the increasing trend of threat and decreasing mangrove belt, Malaysia is potentially exposed to such severe wave impacts. Implementation of optimum replanting scheme is inevitable to ensure acceptable level of protection along the coastline of Malaysia. © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London.
%L scholars7550
%P 131-136
%I CRC Press/Balkema
%D 2016
%R 10.1201/b21942-25
%A D.B. Shahruzzaman
%A A.M. Hashim