After a mountaintop collapsed into the sea in Greenland, a skyscraper-sized 'mega-tsunami' shook the Earth for nine straight days. Scientists say climate change is to blame.
READ MORE:After a mountaintop collapsed into the sea in Greenland, a 'mega-tsunami' as tall as a skyscraper shook the Earth for nine straight days, baffling scientists around the world.
'When we set out on this scientific adventure, everybody was puzzled and no one had the faintest idea what caused this signal,' said Kristian Svennevig, study lead author and geologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. Read More Is major fault line in California about to blow? Most mini earthquakes since 1988 sparks fears of the 'Big One' The research team published their findings today in the journal Science.
Second, the signal remained strong for nine straight days. Typical seismic events decay much more rapidly - the average earthquake lasts only seconds to minutes.Climate change set the stage for this landslide by melting a glacier at the base of the mountain and destabilizing enough ice and rock to fill 10,000 Olympic swimming pools
They did this using a combination of seismic recordings from around the world, field measurements, satellite imagery and computer simulations.
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