{"id":4045,"date":"2024-09-13T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/mega-tsunami-caused-earth-to-vibrate-for-nine-days-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T07:00:47","slug":"mega-tsunami-caused-earth-to-vibrate-for-nine-days-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/mega-tsunami-caused-earth-to-vibrate-for-nine-days-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega-tsunami caused Earth to vibrate for nine days, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth\u2019s crust, researchers found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>It was caused by the glacier at the foot of the mountain thinning, which was the result of climate change, according to the study, which included scientists from University College London (UCL).<\/p>\n<p>The new phenomenon, which began above Dickson Fjord in east <strong>Greenland<\/strong>, left scientists \u201ccompletely baffled\u201d, the study\u2019s co-author Dr Stephen Hicks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time that water sloshing has been recorded as vibrations through the Earth\u2019s crust, travelling the world over and lasting several days,\u201d Dr Hicks, of UCL Earth Sciences, said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>\u201cEven though we know seismometers can record a variety of sources happening on Earth\u2019s surface, never before has such a long-lasting, globally travelling seismic wave, containing only a single frequency of oscillation, been recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study of this event amazingly highlights the intricate interconnections between climate change in the atmosphere, destabilisation of glacier ice in the cryosphere, movements of water bodies in the hydrosphere, and Earth\u2019s solid crust in the lithosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate how the water splashing continued for nine days, researchers recreated the angle of the landslide using a mathematical model.<\/p>\n<p>It suggests that the water would have splashed back and forth every 90 seconds, sending vibrations through the Earth\u2019s crust around the planet, causing one of the largest tsunamis in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>The wave extended 10km (7.4 miles) across the fjord and 110m into the air \u2013 but reduced to 7m within minutes, the study, published in the journal Science, estimates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}