Greenland Landslide Triggers 100m Tsunami 🌊

A massive 2017 landslide in East Greenland caused a 100-meter tsunami wave, shaking the planet with 45 million cubic meters of rock.

Greenland Landslide Triggers 100m Tsunami 🌊
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2.6M views • Apr 14, 2025
Greenland Landslide Triggers 100m Tsunami 🌊

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In the summer of 2017, a remote corner of East Greenland made the entire planet tremble, literally. A colossal landslide sent 45 million cubic meters of rock crashing into a fjord, generating a tsunami that devastated the coastal settlement. But the event didn’t stop there. The impact was so immense that it caused the Earth to “hum” - a deep, low-frequency vibration that rippled through the planet and was detected by seismometers around the world for days. Scientists initially mistook the signal for a small earthquake, but further analysis revealed something far more unusual: a gravity-driven landslide powerful enough to set the planet ringing like a bell.

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