A 200 meter high tsunami that no one saw.

A year ago a tsunami of more than 200 meters high occurred, a wave 200 meters high and no one saw it, it occurred in a Greenland fjord, these images that you are seeing were generated by AI because obviously no one managed to film it, it would have been spectacular, occurred in a Greenland fjord and was just made known a few days ago thanks to research led by Ángela Carrillo Ponce from the German Geosciences Research Center.

On September 16, 2023, a gigantic wave hit the Dickson Fjord on the east coast of Greenland, in the red dot that you are seeing on the map, in some places the traces of the flood reached 200 meters high, luckily it is an area It is an uninhabited area, the population of Greenland is concentrated mainly in the west on the West coast, in the east there are simply glaciers that are thawing right now and there is hardly any human presence. There were no personal injuries, although it did leave a destroyed area. military base that at that time was luckily unmanned.

Earthquake measuring stations, some located up to 5000 km away, recorded the tremor caused by a large landslide in the fjord, that is, a mountain collapsed with ice rocks and everything together, it was a short-lived seismic signal, until That is normal there, even if it is a catastrophic event it is normal within this type of enormous landslides of mountains with rocks etc., however, the curious thing is that there was also a very long period signal that was recorded by the seismometers and lasted a week. It was the sign of the giant wave hitting the fjord until it finally dissolved.

At first, the parts of the mountain that fell into the water caused a giant wave that spread across the entire bottom of the fjord to her island located more than 50 km away, near the point where the rockfall entered the water of the fjord, where all that pile of rocks and ice fell, the maximum height was more than 200 m and along the coast the wave reached an average of 60 m high, brutal, apparently parts of the wave overflowed from the escarpments of the shore of the narrow fjord and a standing wave began to form that moved from one side to the other for more than a week in that entire area, however, this wave is the stationary one that was moving for a week It was only 1 meter tall.

Researchers say that this tsunami is a warning of the retreat that the glaciers in Greenland are suffering, remember that Greenland has an ice cap that reaches up to 2 km thick and the melting of the glaciers and permafrost, permafrost is called the frozen ground with rocks and caked and frozen ice, its melting is causing more landslides and therefore increasing the risk of mega tsunamis, luckily this one occurred in a very confined fjord, so it was limited but what would happen if the next one occurred in a mountain or an area of ​​glacier that is poorly open or affecting a populated area.

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