Melting ice led to a tsunami in Greenland. It could happen again. » Yale Climate Connections

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This Aug. 16, 2010, image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows a piece of the Petermann Glacier that cracked in Greenland. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory via AP)

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In 2023, a tsunami wave taller than the Statue of Liberty crashed back and forth in a Greenland fjord – a narrow inlet carved between steep mountain slopes.

Kristian Svennevig of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland says the tsunami was triggered by a massive landslide that sent more than 800 million cubic feet of rock plunging into the water.