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 · “We are witnessing a rise in giant, tsunami-causing landslides, particularly in Greenland,” he told BBC News. “While the Dickson Fjord event alone doesn't confirm this trend, its ...
New study explains why tsunami signals last year in Greenland …
WEB8 hours 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 ...
Mega-tsunami caused Earth to vibrate for nine days, study shows
WEBSep 13, 2024 · A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth's crust, researchers found.
Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came
WEBSep 13, 2024 · It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious...
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...
Mystery seismic waves that rippled around Earth for nine days …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The military found damage to a glacier that could only be caused by a 200-metre-high mega-tsunami in the isolated fjord — one of the highest tsunamis in recent history — 72 kilometres from the ...
Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine …
WEBSep 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. This wave was triggered by a...
Scientists cracked the mysterious case of a 9-day rumble heard …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The avalanche plunged into the Dickson Fjord, triggering a 650-foot-high tsunami — one of the highest seen in recent history.
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 ...
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