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On September 16th, 2023 at 12:35 UTC, a 25.5 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 (33.4 × 10 ^ 6 cu yd) rockslide occurred on the slope of Dickson Fjord in Northeast Greenland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The rockslide impacted a gully glacier, leading to a rock and ice avalanche that entered the fjord causing a tsunami up to 200-metre-high (660 ft) tsunami and subsequent waves up ...
High mountains surround Dickson Fjord, and its shores are very steep. The head is located in the isthmus area of Suess Land , only about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of the head of Kjerulf Fjord . The northern shore of the fjord is part of Suess Land, and the southwestern of Gletscherland , where the highest point, about 2,194 m (7,198 ft) high ...
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.
A colossal rockslide that triggered a mega-tsunami caused the Earth to ‘hum’ for days, ... triggered a massive tsunami in Dickson Fjord, creating puzzling tremors and a planet-wide “hum ...
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.
On 17 June 2017, a landslide measuring 300 m × 1,100 m (980 ft × 3,610 ft) fell about 1,000 m (3,280 ft) into Karrat Fjord, generating a megatsunami that hit Nuugaatsiaq. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Initially it was unclear if the landslide was caused by a small earthquake (magnitude 4), [ 2 ] [ 5 ] but later it was confirmed that the landslide had ...
A tsunami stemming from a landslide was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, researchers said.
The landslide reached the fjord, generating a megatsunami with an initial wave height of 90 to 100 m (295 to 328 ft). The wave struck the village of Nuugaatsiaq 20 km (12.4 mi) away, where the run-up was 9 metres (30 ft) and the wave swept 11 buildings into the sea and killed four people. The tsunami was noted at settlements as far as 100 ...