Glacier Melt, Greenland Tsunami Trigger 9 Days of Global Sei

Glacier Melt, Greenland Tsunami Trigger 9 Days of Global Sei

Postby Oscar » Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:39 am

Glacier Melt, Greenland Tsunami Trigger 9 Days of Global Seismic Activity

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September 17, 2024 - Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor

EXCERPT: "A massive landslide last September in an East Greenland fjord has been identified as the ultimate cause of mysterious vibrations that shook the entire Earth every 90 seconds for nine days. It also offers further proof that climate change is causing cascading and calamitous large-system feedback, scientists warn.

The large international team of experts who investigated the mysterious global phenomenon—and recently published their results in the academic journal Science—initially named the cause an “unidentified seismic object”, or USO. Eventually, they determined that it was the final act of a drama that began Sept. 16, 2023, when 25 million cubic metres of rock and ice—“a volume equivalent of 25 Empire State Buildings,” notes the BBC News—crashed into the waters of Greenland’s Dickson Fjord, causing a mega-tsunami some 200 metres (50 storeys) high. . . . ."

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