Greenland Mega-Tsunami Breakthrough - Explained

Last year, sensors all over the world pick up a seismic hum that lasted for 9 days. Scientists now think they have an answer to what caused it...

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[TheSometimeAfter]

Ah yes, the standard measurement of weight, the Eiffel Tower

[zuzuspetals]

So if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, it does make a sound.

[backpackbattles]

Can we just appreciate how good humans are at figuring shit out lol

[resiknoiro]

It's astonishing how something as spectacular as this can happen, and no one has a clue until much later, only because it was in greenland. This would have been a spectacle/catastrophy if it happened somewhere where people live.

[thorbartzi]

That seems like a REALLY long time for water to continually slosh around on its own.

[PetruBolocan]

Imagine it happens in the lower part of Greenland in a spot exposed to the Atlantic. Will there be a tsunami in Europe?

[lady_draguliana]

I used to live on the CA coast and there was a small earthquake, 3-4, and people RUSHED to the beach with their surf boards, so I can believe it...

[LyesSMAILI]

Redbull: "did anyone say extreme sports?"

[stroys]

I’m glad he said it was equivalent to 6, 000 Eiffel Towers to help me understand the weight. I’ve never understood pounds or tons but I’m very familiar with the weight of the Eiffel Tower.
😐.

[mohammedbelgoumri]

"In all likelihood, this will happen again. We just don't know when". Sleep well everyone who leaves near similar geographic features.

[patriciathomas]

Sometimes the planet seems small because mankind has continued exploiting land sea and air. And yet here is a landslide of such great magnitude the amount of rock dropping into the fjord is staggering. When we can pickup a signal from the earth but takes over a year to figure out what it was, I find this strangely satisfying.

[mtbuvk]

Everyone always forgets about that guy and his son who rode that 400m tsunami in their fishing boat decades ago....

[SordSwingrr]

That proves the age old question, “If a glacier falls into the ocean and there’s nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?” .

[CoolAsFreya]

"Fjord Tsunami" sounds like a great band name

[MONKEYGUY]

The most amazing thing about this is that the place is so remote that an entire mountain fell down and not a single person saw it happen even though it caused waves that lasted 9 days. They had to scour satellite photos to figure out what happened even though they knew where the waves originated.

[Tinyflypie]

60 million metric tons!!! More impressive than any number of Eiffel Towers

[timberwolfdtproductions]

The Eiffel Tower is a bizarrely random and incongruous metric for measuring weight, especially since very few people have ever dedicated a second of their time to pondering the tower’s mass. A far more relevant consideration would be how many gas tanks in distance the tsunami travelled through the fjord.

[jodyhall]

We really don't want these glaciers to be melting

[northernsoul]

I am Canadian and have don't understand the Eiffel Tower weight comparison. How many poutines does that equal?

[lornaginetteharrison]

I was going to say that was me falling over in my kitchen and breaking my ankle, but that happened on August 6, 2023.