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Well that's just downright terrifying....200m (650ft) tsunami goes wibble-wobble in Greenland Fjord for 9 days last year.
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longrainwater
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A tsunami/tidal wave isn’t the same as a normal wave. It’s like the tide rising 200m suddenly. Which is obviously terrifying, but more like a super flood than a “giant wave”.
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The ninja farmer
Member
I heard about this. It was land locked and steep sided. So the energy in the waves had nowhere to go
I heard it was over a week, before the waters were calm
The volume of land mass or ice must have been huge to generate such an amount of displacement energy
You’ll be glad you didn’t go fishing there, that day
I heard it was over a week, before the waters were calm
The volume of land mass or ice must have been huge to generate such an amount of displacement energy
You’ll be glad you didn’t go fishing there, that day
TransTrender
Gold Member
You would think someone would fly a helicopter or plane to get some kick ass footage of this...
The ninja farmer
Member
I think they said that by the time anyone noticed and because it was so isolated. No one got there in time
There were some stills of a ‘dust cloud’ they think is when the land spill happened
Trilobit
Member
I'd like to see your reporting on other stuff.
"Terrifying terrorist bomb goes boomtsy-boom"
"Maniac did a stibby-stabby"
So it was a landslide that generated a wave?
"Look at these massive steep fjords, carved out by ice! Oh wait, one of these steep sided, very deep cliff faces collapsed? MUST BE CLIMATE CHANGE!!!"
How do they think these fjords were made in the first place? Repeated freezing and thawing cycles perhaps?
Anyway, the area didn't really look like it had been swept by a 200 meter wave, more like a muuuuch smaller wave that reached 200m up the coastline in the places they measured.
If you actually read what they say, the waves that bounced around were a (still impressive) 7 meters high but the "200 meter" number is just how high the water got opposite the collapse.
Typical lazy journalism with a clickbait title if you ask me.
Still, woulda been a HELL of a surf, maybe Tom Cruise can do it for M:I 9, though Bond did it first
"Look at these massive steep fjords, carved out by ice! Oh wait, one of these steep sided, very deep cliff faces collapsed? MUST BE CLIMATE CHANGE!!!"
How do they think these fjords were made in the first place? Repeated freezing and thawing cycles perhaps?
Anyway, the area didn't really look like it had been swept by a 200 meter wave, more like a muuuuch smaller wave that reached 200m up the coastline in the places they measured.
If you actually read what they say, the waves that bounced around were a (still impressive) 7 meters high but the "200 meter" number is just how high the water got opposite the collapse.
Typical lazy journalism with a clickbait title if you ask me.
Still, woulda been a HELL of a surf, maybe Tom Cruise can do it for M:I 9, though Bond did it first
Banjo64
cumsessed
No, it only says the length of the Fjord is 200km.
I think they are inferring 200m from "twice the height of the statue of liberty (93 meters)" which is a VERY odd unit of measurement
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Lunarorbit
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Pics or it didn't happen
mitch1971
Member
Literally in the news report.
Pagusas
Elden Member
I think they are inferring 200m from "twice the height of the statue of liberty (93 meters)" which is a VERY odd unit of measurement
Inches, feet, statues of liberties, football fields. Its how we measure things in America.
Well, I'll take 2 Sydney sweenys and a half a ana de armas in exchange for an alexandra daario and 2/5ths of a Jenny mcCarthy.
Any 'muricsn should be able to figure this out
Unknown Soldier
Member
A huge tsunami like this happened in Alaska in 1958
en.wikipedia.org
This is possible because a large amount of water is suddenly displaced in a small enclosed area like a fjord and requires very specific circumstances to happen
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami - Wikipedia
This is possible because a large amount of water is suddenly displaced in a small enclosed area like a fjord and requires very specific circumstances to happen