Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came …
WEBSep 13, 2024 · The mountain in Dickson Fjord, eastern Greenland, in August 12, 2023 before the landslide. Søren Rysgaard The mountain after the landslide, on September 19, 2023
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days - BBC
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The event at Dickson Fjord, Dr Hicks added, “is the perhaps first time a climate change event has impacted the crust beneath our feet all the world over.” Greenland Science & Environment
A Mysterious Seismic Signal Lasted Nine Days Last Year. It Was a …
WEB4 days ago · The first clue was that the seismic signal corresponded with the location of the Dickson Fjord in Greenland. Photographs and satellite imagery revealed a mountain and part of a glacier in East ...
A tsunami in a remote fjord rang Earth like a bell for 9 days
WEBSep 12, 2024 · In September 2023, an unusual seismic signal raced around the world, zipping from eastern Greenland to Antarctica in less than 1 hour. 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 …
650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 ... - NBC News
WEBSep 12, 2024 · That destabilized a steep mountainside, sending a rock and ice avalanche crashing into Greenland’s deep Dickson Fjord. That displaced a massive volume of water, so a towering wave traveled...
Climate change-triggered landslide unleashes a 650-foot mega …
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)...
Mysterious 9-day seismic event was caused by a mega tsunami …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The gigantic wave, measuring 650 feet (200 meters) high, sloshed back and forth inside East Greenland's Dickson Fjord for nine days in September 2023, its movement sending seismic waves...
Weird signal that baffled seismologists traced to mega-landslide in ...
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The event triggered reports of a tsunami at a research station in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord, and scientists pinpointed the likely source: a 1.2-kilometre-high mountain peak had collapsed into a ...
650-Foot High Megatsunami in Greenland Sends Seismic Waves …
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.
A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Editor’s summary. A large rockslide occurred in Greenland on 16 September 2023 that generated a local tsunami. The event was energetic enough to generate a global signal that resonated for 9 days. Svennevig et al. used a range of geophysical tools to detail the sequence of events that occurred and then determined the origin of the global signal.
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