Tsunami from the Storegga Landslide

Bondevik, S. (2019). Tsunami from the Storegga Landslide. In R. A. Meyers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp. 1–33). Springer. 10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_644-1

Sammendrag

The Storegga tsunami was generated by the Storegga landslide off the Norwegian coast about 8150 years ago. The tsunami deposits show that the coasts of Scotland, Norway, Shetland, Faroe Islands and possibly also Eastern Greenland and Denmark was inundated, and that the tsunami ran up to heights ranging from 3 to more than 20 meters above sea level of that time. The Storegga tsunami is important for two reasons: First, it shows that big tsunamis have happened along passive margins and outside of the Pacific Ocean. Second, it is the only slide-generated tsunami of a basin-wide range where the run-up has been mapped out in the field and the tsunami simulated with numerical models.

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This is an accepted manuscript version of a book chapter published in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science on 25 May 2019, and may be used under SpringerNature’s Terms of Use. The Version of Record can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_644-1

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