An enormous submarine landslide that disintegrated 60,000 years ago produced the longest flow of sand and mud yet documented on Earth. The massive submarine flow travelled 1,500 kilometres the distance from London to Rome before depositing its load. Details of the landslide and consequent sedi...
In 1934 a landslide into the Tafjord created a local tsunami which killed 47 people living on the shore of the fjord. Read more The near-vertical sides of the fjord in this stunning part of the world, hide a rift that is opening up near the summit a...
a massive landslide on the ocean floor off Storegga, south-west Norway, triggered a 10-meter high tsunamis.
Radiocarbon dating of sediments taken from the coastline of eastern Scotland show that a giant wave flooded Scotland about 5,800 BC. At the time, Britain was joined to mainland Europe...