A Triggered 650 Foot Mega Tsunami In Greenland Shook Earth For 9 Days
An earthquake signal surfaced in Greenland last September – a serious vibration that shook the surface of Earth for nine days. Seismologists all around the world are trying their best to find out what the earthquake signal was about and found out it’s another warning that the Arctic is entering into areas in the Ocean that have never been mapped as humans push global temperatures ever upwards.
Several reports from Seismologists in Denmark confirmed a landslide-triggered tsunami in a remote part of the region called Dickson Fjord. Upon further investigation, scientists found out the mountain was destabilised by climate change melting the glaciers at its base. The researchers published their findings on 12th September, 2024.
Study lead author, Kristian Svennevig, a Geologist at Geology Survey Of Denmark and Greenland in a statement said “no one had the faintest idea of what could have caused the signal when we set out on this scientific research, but we were certain it could be linked to the landslide… After being picked up by seismic monitoring stations in September, two aspects of the signal puzzled scientists. First was the unusual earthquake, high frequency swaying within 92-second intervals between peaks and second was the continuous process for nine days. To understand how it emits signals, researchers combined field measurements, satellite imagery, and supercomputer models to reconstruct what happened.”
Co-author, Alice Gabriel, seismologist at the University of California, San Diego, said in the statement “The discovery shows that a huge landslide caused by a tsunami wave to rock back and forth across the narrow fjord — a phenomenon known as a seiche.
“The landslide that caused the giant tsunami was the result of climate change. Climate change is melting the ice around the poles at an accelerating rate, and in the fjord’s case it dislodged 33 million cubic yards. The signal travelled from Greenland to Antarctica in an hour. No one got injured in the tsunami but it washed away many centuries old cultural heritage sites and destroyed an almost empty military base. If one had been there at the time, the consequences would have been devastating.”
