Nuugaatsiaq - Wikipedia
Nuugaatsiaq (old spelling: Nûgâtsiaq) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula, in the Uummannaq Fjord basin. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, [1] but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.
Greenland: A landslide triggered a mega-tsunami. Then came …
2024年9月13日 — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious...
Huge landslide triggered rare Greenland mega-tsunami | Nature
2017年7月27日 — It caused a sudden surge of seawater that wreaked havoc in the fishing village of Nuugaatsiaq, located on an island within the fjord about 20 kilometres away (see ‘Greenland tsunami’). The...
650-foot tsunami in Greenland made waves for days, scientists find
2024年9月12日 — After seismologists detected abnormal vibrations, they determined that a 650-foot tsunami had occurred in Greenland. The tsunami was the result of melting glacial ice, which caused a...
Karrat Fjord (Greenland) tsunamigenic landslide of 17 June …
2017年12月5日 — On 17 June 2017, a landslide-generated tsunami reached the village of Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland, leaving four persons missing and presumed dead. Here, we present a preliminary high-resolution analysis of the tsunamigenic landslide scar based on three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions of oblique aerial photographs taken during a post-failure ...
A Lurking Disaster in Greenland - Pulitzer Center
2021年11月24日 — In June 2017, a 100-meter (328-foot) high tsunami wave lurched across a remote bay in Greenland towards the small village of Nuugaatsiaq, home to about 100 people. The community was soon evacuated along with nearby Illorsuit.
Dramatic Video Shows Deadly Tsunami Hitting Greenland
2017年6月23日 — Video from Greenland shows a powerful tsunami striking an inhabited part of the island's western shore. The disaster that ravaged the island late Saturday has left four people presumed dead,...
Massive Greenland tsunami shook Earth for nine days
2024年9月12日 — A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth” for nine days. The seismic signal last September was picked up by sensors all over the world, leading ...
Preliminary Analysis of Satellite Imagery and Seismic Observations …
2018年6月28日 — Around 10 pm local time on June 17th, 2017, a tsunami hit the community of Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland. Four people are presumed to have been killed and eleven homes were destroyed according to the Joint Arctic Command of the Danish Defense, who responded to the event, and media accounts.
NHESS - Arctic tsunamis threaten coastal landscapes and communities ...
Here we report on the largest documented tsunami wave in Greenland to date (runup height ca. 90 m), which resulted from a massive landslide to Karrat Isfjord and destroyed the settlement of Nuugaatsiaq on 17 June 2017 (Fig. 1).