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List of disasters by cost. Over $1 billion. Actual, and inflated to 2023 (unless otherwise stated) Event Cost ($ billion) Fatalities Type Year Nation(s) Actual Inflated Chernobyl disaster: $700 [6] $888.7 30–500: Contamination (Radioactive) 1986 Soviet Union (, , ) 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami + Fukushima nuclear disaster: $360 [7] [8 ...
17 June – the 2023 Greenland landslide and megatsunami caused a significant portion of land to collapse near the town of Nuugaatsiaq, [2] leaving four people dead, and leading to the evacuation of Nuugaatsiaq, Illorsuit and Niaqornat.
Greenland is the world's largest island and an autonomous Danish dependent territory with self-government and its own parliament. Though a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has ...
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.
According to the European Environmental Agency "the cumulative ice loss from Greenland from 1992 to 2015 was 3 600 Gt (Gigatonnes) and contributed to global sea level rise by approximately 10 mm." [13] The mass loss of Greenland over 2009-2018 was likely more than seven times higher than over 1992-2001. [14]
The Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland is one of the largest glaciers connecting the Greenland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean. Petermann's ice flow has accelerated in recent years.
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Greenland's per capita disposable income is the lowest in the Arctic other than Russia's, and less than one third that of the American state of Alaska. [10] GDP per capita is close to the average for European economies, but the economy is critically dependent upon substantial support from the Danish government, which supplies about half the revenues of the self-rule government, which in turn ...