Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came
Sep 13, 2024 · The subsequent mega-tsunami — one of the highest in recent history — set off a wave which became trapped in the bendy, narrow fjord for more than a week, sloshing back and forth every 90 seconds.
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days - BBC News
12 September 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,...
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days - BBC
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 ...
Frozen Fury: Satellite Captures Unprecedented Tsunami in Greenland Fjord
Nov 2, 2024 · Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. The SWOT satellite captured a tsunami in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord, triggered by a massive rockslide in 2023. Over nine days, the water sloshed dramatically back every 90 seconds due to the fjord’s enclosed structure, demonstrating SWOT’s advanced capabilities in monitoring detailed water levels and aiding ...
A tsunami in a remote fjord rang Earth like a bell for 9 days
Sep 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.
A Mysterious Seismic Signal Lasted Nine Days Last Year. It Was a …
Sep 16, 2024 · A melting glacier caused a mountain in Greenland to collapse into a narrow fjord, setting off an oscillating wave that rattled seismic detectors around the world
650-foot tsunami in Greenland fjord made waves that lasted 9 ... - NBC News
Sep 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...
New study explains why tsunami signals last year in Greenland …
Sep 20, 2024 · 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...
Sizing Up a Greenland Tsunami - NASA Earth Observatory
1 day ago · In a paper published recently in Science, researchers traced a seismic signal back to a tsunami that began when more than 25 million cubic meters (880 million cubic feet) of rock and ice fell into Dickson Fjord. Part of a network of channels on Greenland’s eastern coast, the fjord is about 540 meters (1,772 feet) deep and 2.7 kilometers (1.7 ...
Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine …
Sep 12, 2024 · Hicks and others have now shown that this signal was caused by water sloshing from side to side across the 2.7-kilometre-wide Dickson Fjord in eastern Greenland.