A slightly different type of avalanche...

[abraham]

I think part of it is that the volcano is 10-15,000 feet above the ocean floor so the landslide could have a lot of vertical motion.

Also the landslide blog is fucking great, where else would I come across things like this?

On the other hand, today I learned that there's evidence of two separate cosmic impacts on settlements in the middle east, possibly the root of the Sodom and Gomorrah story. So maybe a giant tsunami is a real risk?



https://theconversation.com/a-giant-...f-sodom-167678
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60867-w

[bennymac]

A much smaller scale than the canary in the ocean story - but isn’t there a threat (theoretically) of a massive slide on the Big island leading to widespread tsunamis on every Hawaiian island

[bodywhomper]

There are some examples of submarine landslides leading to tsunamis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_landslide

[bennymac]

The mega tsunami in glacier bay area of SE Alaska was pretty massive

[abraham]

But that's the opposite of a tsunami crossing the Atlantic to the east coast, very constrained by the boundaries of the water so there's nowhere for it to spread out.

[bennymac]

Totally

[Norseman]

A much smaller scale than the canary in the ocean story - but isn’t there a threat (theoretically) of a massive slide on the Big island leading to widespread tsunamis on every Hawaiian island

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu%CA%BBuanu_Slide

There are some examples NID submarine landslides leading to tsunamis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_landslide

Those Norwegian events sound insane.