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  2. Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard - Wikipedia

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    The landslide modelled by Ward and Day 2001 may be implausibly thick given the known volumes of Canary Islands mega-landslides, and collapses may have occurred in multiple steps rather than a single failure [119] [7] or may have a smaller volume. [120]

  3. Cumbre Vieja - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. 2024 Port Vila earthquake - Wikipedia

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    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, [35] with waves expected to reach 1 m (3 ft 3 in). [47] This was lifted on 14:14 VUT. [29]

  5. A landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland ...

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    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.

  6. Megatsunami - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Why Thursday's Tsunami Warning was issued and what it ... - AOL

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    The Tsunami Warning, which means a tsunami with flooding and dangerous currents is imminent, was issued for the area from just south of Florence, Oregon, down to Davenport, California, when the 7. ...

  8. Huge landslide in Greenland triggered ‘mega-tsunami’ that ...

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    The landslide, which took place last year in September, triggered a massive tsunami in Dickson Fjord, creating puzzling tremors and a planet-wide “hum”, scientists said.

  9. 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption - Wikipedia

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    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 ]