Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · In June 2017, a tsunami in northwest Greenland killed four people and washed away houses. The threat goes beyond Greenland, Svennevig said; similar-shaped fjords exist in other regions, including ...
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days - BBC News
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Jeff Kerby. Scientists were able to pin down the location of the tsunami to a remote fjord in East Greenland. A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth ...
New study explains why tsunami signals last year in Greenland …
WEB4 hours ago · 00:00. 02:09. New research explains what exactly happened a year ago, when large, seismic waves from Greenland caused the Earth to tremble for nine days and the movement was detected at monitoring ...
650-foot tsunami in Greenland made waves for days ... - NBC News
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The Summary. After seismologists detected abnormal vibrations, they determined that a 650-foot tsunami had occurred in Greenland. The tsunami was the result of melting glacial ice, which caused a ...
Thinning Ice Caused a Landslide. Then an Avalanche. Then a Tsunami.
WEB9 hours ago · On September 16, 2023, the world began to rumble. A gargantuan rock-ice avalanche tumbled into the deep waters of a fjord in eastern Greenland, unleashing a mega-tsunami whose initial waves ...
A tsunami in a remote fjord rang Earth like a bell for 9 days
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The seismic waves continued to radiate worldwide for 9 days, ringing Earth like a giant bell. Now, scientists have tracked these mysterious signals to their source—a colossal landslide in a remote Greenland fjord that sparked tsunami waves up to 200 meters tall, the team reports today in Science.
Greenland tsunami shook earth for nine days | BBC News
WEBA massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth” for nine days. The seismic signal last September was picked up by sensors all over the world, leading ...
Climate change-triggered landslide unleashes a 650-foot mega-tsunami
WEBSep 12, 2024 · A new study published today in Science provides the stunning solution: In an East Greenland fjord, a mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami about 200 meters (650 feet)...
Megatsunami in Greenland Produced Waves That Lasted an Entire …
WEBAug 26, 2024 · A landslide and its resulting megatsunami in a Greenland fjord in September 2023 were significant enough to send waves around the channel of water for an entire week, newly analyzed data collected from seismic monitors has shown.
What Greenland’s nine-day mega-tsunami tells us about climate …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · A seismic signal heard across the world last September for nine days has been traced back to a trapped tsunami triggered by a landslide in the remote fjords of Greenland.