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Other historically recorded examples include the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake, the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami, [18] numerous tsunamis at Stromboli including a 2002 tsunami [19] that caused severe damage to coastal settlements, [5] the 1888 tsunami caused by the Ritter Island collapse [20] which killed about 3000 people [5] and is the largest ...
The Cumbre Vieja (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkumbɾe ˈβjexa]; meaning "Old Summit") is an active volcanic ridge on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. [4] The spine of Cumbre Vieja trends in an approximate north–south direction, comprising the southern half of La Palma, with both summit ridge and flanks pockmarked by dozens of craters and cones. [5]
An eruption at the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge, comprising the southern half of the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, took place between 19 September and 13 December 2021. [7] It was the first volcanic eruption on the island since the eruption of Teneguía in 1971 . [ 8 ]
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.
A megatsunami in the Canary Islands would diminish to a normal tsunami by the time it reached the continents. [97] Also, the current consensus for La Palma is that the region conjectured to collapse is too small and too geologically stable to do so in the next 10,000 years, although there is evidence for past megatsunamis local to the Canary ...
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.
In 2011, a tsunami from the devastating Japan earthquake also battered some coastal areas of California, resulting in more than $100 million in damage at marinas and harbors, state officials estimate.
The landslide then triggered a small tsunami up to 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) high that hit the shoreline four minutes later. [199] Both the earthquake and tsunami caused some damage to homes, but there were no casualties. [200] 2021 Alaska 2021 Chignik earthquake: Earthquake A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.