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Dickson Fjord is in the northernmost area of the King Oscar Fjord system. It is the biggest branch of Kempe Fjord.Its mouth opens on the northern side at the western end of the fjord, where there is a junction of three branches, the other two being Röhss Fjord and Rhedin Fjord.
That destabilized a steep mountainside, sending a rock and ice avalanche crashing into Greenland’s deep Dickson Fjord. That displaced a massive volume of water, so a towering wave traveled ...
On September 16th, 2023 at 12:35 UTC, a 25.5 Mm 3 (3.34 × 10 19 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 an up to 200 m (660 ft) high tsunami and subsequent waves up to 110 m high, with ...
Bernstorff Fjord; Bessel Fjord; Bessel Fjord, NW Greenland; Bowdoin Fjord; Carlsberg Fjord (Kangerterajitta Itterterilaq) Cass Fjord; Danmark Fjord; De Dodes Fjord; Deichmann Fjord; Dickson Fjord (branch of King Oscar Fjord notable due to the September 2023 rockslide and associated 9-day seismic event caused by a seiche megatsunami) Dijmphna ...
A tsunami stemming from a landslide was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, researchers said.
The mountain in Dickson Fjord, eastern Greenland, in August 12, 2023 before the landslide. - Søren Rysgaard. The mountain after the landslide, on September 19, 2023 - Danish Army.
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.
Gletscherland, meaning "Glacier Land", is a peninsula in King Christian X Land, East Greenland. ... in the north and northeast by the Dickson Fjord, ...