Rare Greenland Magnitude 4 Earthquake Tsunami

[waltky]

Homes were swept away and villagers reported missing...

Dramatic images after Greenland tsunami
Tue, 20 Jun 2017 : Homes were swept away and villagers reported missing after a rare earthquake hit the area on Sunday.

A rare magnitude-four earthquake hit Greenland's west coast on Sunday, producing a surge of water that swept away homes and led to reports of a number of people missing.

Joint Arctic Command, the group tasked with the search and rescue mission, has since published images of the aftermath of the disaster and told the BBC that it continues to monitor the situation, warning that further incidents could take place.

Homes were submerged and washed away after a tsunami hit the village of Nuugaatsiaq, north-western Greenland. Rescuers used liferafts to sweep the area after four people were reported missing. A number of injuries were also reported after 39 people were evacuated from Nuugaatsiaq. The surge of water is believed to have swept away 11 homes in the small village.

The authorities said the tsunami was caused by a magnitude-four earthquake, which is rare for the area. Police chief Bjørn Tegner Bay said he was unable to confirm whether there had been fatalities. Meteorologists said it was "not normal" for such an earthquake to hit Greenland and warned of aftershocks.

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[stjames1_53]

It could be that the climate didn't have one thing to do with it, so a meteorologist is irrelevant. Like I've been saying all along, this planet is going to do whatever its course has set upon.

[Hoosier8]

Let's not forget the sea level there is dropping because the thin crust that covers the earth is still rising from losing the weight of the last glacial period glaciers. Bound to have the occasional earthquake.

[waltky]

Global warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere melting Greenland ice...

Some Of The Oldest Ice In The Arctic Is Now Breaking Apart
August 23, 2018 - A huge pack of floating ice along the northern Greenland coastline is breaking up and drifting apart into the Arctic Ocean — another consequence, scientists say, of global warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

"We've never seen anything this large in terms of an opening north of Greenland," says polar scientist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This sea ice is some of the oldest and thickest in the Arctic. Wind and currents normally shove lots of ice up against the northern coast of Greenland, where it stacks up and clings for years. "It's like a crowd entering a stadium," Scambos says. "It's sort of pushed by the ice behind it until it's packed really tight, and that's made it thick and durable." Think of those long-lasting mounds of ice left on city streets by snowplows — but up to 30 feet thick.

Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast of Greenland

Global warming, however, has finally begun to break up this ice, Scambos says. The Arctic is warming faster than any other part of the planet; last February saw remarkably warm winter temperatures there. The normally year-round frozen ice "kind of rattles around in the arctic now," he says. "And [in] this area north of Greenland, what we're seeing is that the ice is so thin and sort of loosely packed that a few days of strong winds in an unusual direction can push the ice away from the coast that it always collided with in its drift pattern."

Polar scientists have watched the duration and extent of Arctic Ocean ice decline for many years as a result of warming. But the loss of the Greenland section shows that warming is also changing how ice moves. And while the Greenland ice breakup may be out of sight, for polar scientists, it's not out of mind. It's another shift in the Arctic environment caused by warming. And scientists point out that the Arctic environment — its ocean currents, ice floes, and wind patterns — affects the jet stream, which in turn influences the weather people get across the Northern Hemisphere.



https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641285739/some-of-the-oldest-ice-in-the-arctic-is-now-breaking-apart

[MisterVeritis]

The Earth, which warms and cools for its own reasons is in a warming phase. Enjoy it.

[Peter1469]

Although Greenland is north of the Ring of Fire, there have been over 144 major earth quakes along it over the last 7 days.

[Orion Rules]

The Earth, which warms and cools for its own reasons is in a warming phase. Enjoy it.

No, the Earth, which is in a cooling-off period towards the greed of mankind, is enraged on its outset, that selfish, volatile predators continue to harass, destroy, and then call that enjoyment, when it is a sickness to enjoy something that is living, that is taken out of its Earthly life-span, such as a seal bludgeoned to death, another whale taken out, (the call was, 'it's in demand', because someone believes it will continue to grow their bank accounts). So for that, they shall be rendered all of the worst of those memories.