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Do underwater avalanches pose a tsunami threat?
by howard941 2y ago
Do underwater avalanches pose a tsunami threat?
- dboreham 2y agoSee: the Forth Estuary.
- rqtwteye 2y agoI think there was one 100 years ago somewhere on the Canada coast that caused a tsunami and killed some people.
- actionfromafar 2y agoAnd one 250 years or so ago, stories of canoes in tree tops and such.
- bell-cot 2y agoOh, yes. Depends on the avalanche's size (& location & etc.) - but (say) this one is hypothesized to have killed ~1/4 of the at-the-time population of Britain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
- CaptainJack 2y agoYes. Close to us, there was a landslide-caused tsunami in Nice, France back in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami
- philshem 2y agoCan also happen in inland lakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event