80-meter high tsunami threatens to devastate Geiranger Major disasters also occur when glacial . The Historic Storegga Slide & Tsunamis - Life in Norway A tsunami of about 1.75m (5.7ft) high was reported near the epicentre. . If you have already purchased access, or are a print & archive subscriber, please ensure you arelogged in. Michigan USA. p. 17. At 03.10 in the night on the 7. of April 1934 the population in Tafjord woke up by the sound of a gigantic boom as from an enormous explosion, and the ground was shaking. What had happened was that Langhammaren had fallen down from 730 meters above sea level, pushing a large scree called . The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (moment magnitude 9.19.3)[17] triggered a series of tsunamis on 26 December 2004 that devastated coastlines surrounding the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people (167,540 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami and one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Thanks to these new studies, scientists are beginning to connect cultural shifts in Indian and Pacific Ocean societies with great tsunamis. Longva et al. . A magnitude 7.9 earthquakes struck central Honshu on 18 January 1586. [CDATA[// >
