The Massive Tsunami that Hit the British Isles; The Storegga Slide

Approximately 8,000 years ago, a wall of water up to 25 meters or 82 feet in height raced across large swaths of the British Isles. This tsunami advanced across the landscape at a fast rate, reaching as much as 80 kilometers or 50 miles inland. What had just occurred was the largest tsunami to hit the region in the last 10,000 years. It was not caused by a major earthquake, but rather one of the planet's largest submarine landslides. Known as the Storegga slide, it occurred off the coast of Norway.

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Graphics of eruption dates are courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institute. https://volcano.si.edu/

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0:00 6150 BC Tsunami
0:26 The Storegga Slide
1:09 Slide Area
1:48 Ice Age Climate
2:08 Build Up of Sediments
3:42 Reports of Further Tsunamis

Citations:
[1] TY  - BOOK
AU  - Long, David
PY  - 2015/12/31
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T1  - A catalogue of tsunamis reported in the UK
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[2] Haflidason, Haflidi & Sejrup, Hans & Nygård, Atle & Mienert, Jurgen & Bryn, Petter & Lien, Reidar & Forsberg, Carl & Berg, Kjell & Masson, Doug. (2004). The Storegga Slide: Architecture, Geometry and Slide Development. Marine Geology - MAR GEOLOGY. 213. 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.10.007.

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