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Nuugaatsiaq (old spelling: Nûgâtsiaq) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula, in the Uummannaq Fjord basin. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, [1] but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.
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.
The coast of Karrat Fjord has been the scene of large landslides, one of which generated a megatsunami: On 1 September 2009, a landslide consisting of 2,800,000 cubic metres (3,700,000 cu yd) of material occurred on the south-facing slope of the mountain Ummiammakku at 71°38′20″N 052°19′16″W / 71.63889°N 52.32111°W / 71. ...
The tsunami was the result of melting glacial ice, which caused a landslide that displaced water in a Greenland fjord. The waves it created bounced back and forth across the fjord for nine days.
That would make this Dickson fjord tsunami the tallest wave recorded on Earth since 1980. “The signal looked nothing like an earthquake,” Stephen Hicks, a co-author of the study from ...
A tsunami warning was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre covering Vanuatu, Fiji, the Kermadec Islands, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Wallis and Futuna, [11] with waves expected to reach 1 m (3 ft 3 in). [41] This was lifted on 14:14 VUT. [28]
On 17 June 2017, a 300 m × 1,100 m (980 ft × 3,610 ft) landslide fell approximately 1,000 m (3,280 ft) into Karrat Fjord in the Uummannaq area of western Greenland. The resulting tsunami hit the Nuugaatsiaq settlement, killing four people, injuring nine, and dragging eleven buildings into the water.
A tsunami stemming from a landslide was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, researchers said. Mysterious 9-day seismic event triggered by 650-foot ...