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The Poseidon appears to be a torpedo-shaped robotic mini-submarine which can travel at speeds of 185 km/h (100 kn). [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 27 ] More recent information suggests a top speed of 100 km/h (54 kn), with a range of 10,000 km (5,400 nmi; 6,200 mi) and a depth maximum of 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
In 2018, Russia has released plans for a 20 to 100Mt tsunami bomb, named Status-6 or Poseidon Torpedo, which is realized as a nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed unmanned underwater vehicle with a length of about 24m. According to the plan, the Poseidon Torpedo would initiate a 500m high shockwave.
The refit included both removing the cruise missile launch tube bay to make room for a new bay about 18 meters long that is capable of accommodating special operations submarines such as the Losharik or Paltus and lengthening the bow bay to 38 meters to accommodate the new Poseidon nuclear-powered torpedoes.
A tsunami has killed at least 280 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed to have been caused by the erupting Anak ...
Previously operational as early as 1977, the torpedo was announced as being deployed in the 1990s. [2] The Shkval is intended as a countermeasure against torpedoes launched by undetected enemy submarines. [2] Shkval nose cone Shkval rear, showing the guidance fins and the electronics connector
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The 479 BC Potidaea tsunami is the oldest record of a paleotsunami in human history. [1] The tsunami is believed to have been triggered by a M s 7.0 earthquake in the north Aegean Sea . The associated tsunami may have saved the colony of Potidaea from an invasion by Persians from the Achaemenid Empire .
On 10 April 1815, an eruption of VEI 7 caused a localized tsunami. Tsunami of 4 metres (13 ft) in Sanggar, 1 to 2 m (3 ft 3 in to 6 ft 7 in) in Besuki, Java Island and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in the Molucca Islands. 1819: Gujarat, India: 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake: Earthquake: On 16 June 1819, a local tsunami inundated the Great Rann of Kutch: 1833