Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days

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99 points·DougN7··14 comments

It's pretty incredible that a 110-meter high tsunami happened and the only reason anyone noticed was a former employee saw that one of the abandoned SIRIUS research stations was swept away, after their cruise ship ran aground at the mouth of the fjord [1] the day after.

They probably would have figured it out from the seismic data eventually, but the tsunami was identified within a week in one of the remotest places on earth because of some random pleasure cruise.

[1] https://www.smobserved.com/story/2023/09/21/news/greenland-t...

The amount of modern society that only exists because of random individuals being in the right place at the right time is terrifying.

The bouncing wave was 7m high, and after 3 days only a few centimeters.

This YouTube movie https://youtu.be/60T9TKuuujs with several of the authors, nice visuals and animations explains it in great detail. Highly recommended.

Consider replacing the link to the article with the video.

Thank you for that. The background music was irritating, but it’s a really fantastic video!

Truly fantastic video straight from the authors who know what they are speaking

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=72.833333&mlon=-26.95&zo...

Pretty typical-looking for the area, so it seems likely we will see more events like this as the glaciers recede. At some point we'll probably get video!

Reminds me of this Norwegian movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(2015_film)

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