{"id":93140,"date":"2020-10-19T23:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/melting-alaska-glacier-could-unleash-mega-tsunami-this-year\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:58:24","slug":"melting-alaska-glacier-could-unleash-mega-tsunami-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/melting-alaska-glacier-could-unleash-mega-tsunami-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#Melting Alaska glacier could unleash \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Melting Alaska glacier could unleash \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 this year<\/strong>”
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\n An unprecedented \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 could be caused by a melting Alaska glacier, scientists have warned.<\/p>\n

The concerned experts claim the catastrophic event could even happ<\/a>en within the next 12 months if melting ice triggers a landslide of unstable rocks.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s not that soon, they think the \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 is likely to happen within the next two decades.<\/p>\n

The potential disaster was warned about in May by scientists who wrote an open letter<\/a> to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (ADNR).<\/p>\n

They\u2019re worried about an area called Prince William Sound along the south coast of Alaska in the US.<\/p>\n

This region has seen glacier retreat, which has led to instability on the slopes of a mountain in Barry Arm above the Barry Glacier.<\/p>\n

The scientists wrote: \u201cWe, a group of scientists with expertise in climate change, landslides, and tsunami hazards, have identified an unstable mountain slope above the toe of Barry Glacier in Barry Arm, 60 miles east of Anchorage, that has the potential to fail and generate a tsunami.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis tsunami could impact areas frequented by tourists, fishing vessels, and hunters (potentially hundreds of people at one time).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that it is possible that this landslide-generated tsunami will happen within the next year, and likely within 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Satellite images have shown how ice melt on the glacier has left a large rocky area exposed.<\/p>\n

It could mean a slow moving landslide is already taking place but if a large part of the mountain slope gave way it could have dire consequences.<\/p>\n

Prince William Sound is a remote area but its surrounding waters are often frequented by boats, including cruise ships.<\/p>\n

The researchers said: \u201cLandslides have set off giant waves elsewhere in Alaska and Greenland during the past decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Taan Fiord (Icy Bay, Alaska), a landslide that began moving slowly decades ago suddenly failed in October 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resulting tsunami reached elevations of 633 feet near the landslide, and 35 feet 15 miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Karrat Fiord, west Greenland, a landslide in June 2017 similarly produced a tsunami that killed four people and destroyed a large portion of the town of Nuugaatsiaq, 20 miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurviving villagers still have not returned because a nearby slope is deforming and threatening to fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unstable slope in Barry Arm is much bigger than either of these examples, and thus has the potential to produce a larger tsunami that could have impacts throughout Prince William Sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 1958 landslide in the region resulted in what\u2019s often referred to as the tallest tsunami wave in modern times.<\/p>\n

It was said to have reached 1,720 feet tall and the impact was compared to an atomic bomb by eye-witnesses.<\/p>\n

Geophysicist Chunli Dai from the Ohio State University\u00a0told NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory<\/a>: \u201cIt was hard to believe the numbers at first.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the elevation of the deposit above the water, the volume of land that was slipping, and the angle of the slope, we calculated that a collapse would release 16 times more debris and 11 times more energy than Alaska\u2019s 1958 Lituya Bay landslide and mega-tsunami.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the release of the open letter earlier this year, further analysis has noted little change.<\/p>\n

Ongoing monitoring will continue so that scientists can spot warning signs of a landslide and subsequent tsunami before it happens.<\/p>\n

These scientists have predicted that the tsunami could cause issues over 10 miles away so a pre-warning could save lives.<\/p>\n

The researchers\u2019 findings are available on the ADNR website<\/a>.\n <\/div>\n

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“#Melting Alaska glacier could unleash \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 this year” An unprecedented \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019 could be caused by a melting Alaska glacier, scientists have warned. The concerned experts claim the catastrophic event could even happen within the next 12 months if melting ice triggers a landslide of unstable rocks. If it\u2019s not that soon, they think the \u2018mega-tsunami\u2019…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Barry-Glacier-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[76303,24459,43485,76408],"class_list":["post-93140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-19-20","tag-alaska","tag-climate-change","tag-tsunamis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}