The colossal wave was so big that reverberated back and forth between the banks of the fiord for an astonishing nine days.

A tsunami warning was issued across Northern California on Thursday morning following a magnitude 7 earthquake. It's a reminder to prepare and know how to respond in case of such emergencies.

The researchers eventually worked out that 25 million cubic metres of rock - a volume equivalent of 25 Empire State Buildings - slammed into the water, causing a 200m-high “mega-tsunami”.

“Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Forthcoming. Haynes, Gary. 2008. “Introduction to the volume.” ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

His calculations suggest that even mega-tremblors in any of the other seismic ... It would make sense to classify the level of the tsunami threat, following countries like USA and Japan. “For example, ...

Japan’s 2011 tsunami affected both the rich coastal ecosystems of northeastern Japan and the local communities reliant upon them. The destruction to the landscape wreaked by the tsunami that ...

And there was the catastrophic mega-tsunami of 1700, originating from a magnitude 9 earthquake over the Cascadia fault system, which runs offshore from Northern California to Vancouver Island for ...

In September 2023, a colossal landslide in East Greenland triggered a mega-tsunami in remote Dickson Fiord. The vibrations were felt around the world for nine consecutive days. For a year ...