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 ...
650-foot tsunami in Greenland made waves for days ... - NBC News
WEBSep 12, 2024 · A 650-foot tsunami in Greenland was the result of melting glacial ice that caused a landslide. The waves it created bounced back and forth for nine days.
New study explains why tsunami signals last year in Greenland …
WEB1 day ago · In a paper published last week in Science magazine, researchers describe how a tsunami became trapped inside Dickson Fjord, Greenland, in September 2023 after a mountaintop collapsed. The ...
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.
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days - BBC News
WEBSep 12, 2024 · A 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 ...
650-Foot High Megatsunami in Greenland Sends Seismic
WEBSep 10, 2024 · A 2023 megatsunami in Greenland, caused by a large rockslide, was analyzed globally for its seismic signals, which revealed a week-long oscillating wave in Dickson Fjord, helping researchers study geological instabilities in climate-sensitive areas. (Artist’s Concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com.
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)...
650 Feet High: The Megatsunami That Rocked Greenland’s East …
WEBAug 13, 2024 · On 16 September 2023, a massive landslide in Greenland triggered a megatsunami, creating a standing wave that oscillated in Dickson Fjord for over a week, observed worldwide through seismic stations.
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. Climate scientists say ...
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