A 200 meter high tsunami that no one saw.
A 200 meter high tsunami that no one saw.
A year ago a tsunami of more than 200 meters high occurred, a wave 200 meters high and no one saw it, it occurred in a Greenland fjord, these images that you are seeing were generated by AI because obviously no one managed to film it, it would have been spectacular, occurred in a Greenland fjord and was just made known a few days ago thanks to research led by Ángela Carrillo Ponce from the German Geosciences Research Center.
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On September 16, 2023, a gigantic wave hit the Dickson Fjord on the east coast of Greenland, in the red dot that you are seeing on the map, in some places the traces of the flood reached 200 meters high, luckily it is an area It is an uninhabited area, the population of Greenland is concentrated mainly in the west on the West coast, in the east there are simply glaciers that are thawing right now and there is hardly any human presence. There were no personal injuries, although it did leave a destroyed area. military base that at that time was luckily unmanned.
Earthquake measuring stations, some located up to 5000 km away, recorded the tremor caused by a large landslide in the fjord, that is, a mountain collapsed with ice rocks and everything together, it was a short-lived seismic signal, until That is normal there, even if it is a catastrophic event it is normal within this type of enormous landslides of mountains with rocks etc., however, the curious thing is that there was also a very long period signal that was recorded by the seismometers and lasted a week. It was the sign of the giant wave hitting the fjord until it finally dissolved.
Researchers say that this tsunami is a warning of the retreat that the glaciers in Greenland are suffering, remember that Greenland has an ice cap that reaches up to 2 km thick and the melting of the glaciers and permafrost, permafrost is called the frozen ground with rocks and caked and frozen ice, its melting is causing more landslides and therefore increasing the risk of mega tsunamis, luckily this one occurred in a very confined fjord, so it was limited but what would happen if the next one occurred in a mountain or an area of glacier that is poorly open or affecting a populated area.
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If the next one occur in a mountain area wont be very funny, I can’t even imagine experiencing a tsunami im my country, so may homes and lives will be destroyed.
Greenland must have been tough that last year, how come i never read news about this
If it occurs in a populated and more open area, the disaster is enormous; and it would affect many countries because the wave can spread to Europe.
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thanks for finding this, and linking the article. away to have a read of that now.
Thank you very much, I always upload current scientific content that is interesting and that will matter to us.