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Storegga (Norwegian: Great Edge) is located at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km (62 mi) north-west of the Møre coast. In around 6200 BCE, structural failures of the shelf caused three underwater landslides, which triggered very large tsunamis in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Thousands of years ago, way before anyone ever stepped onto a football pitch, Britain and the surrounding areas experienced a natural disaster so enormous th...
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1 de dez. de 2020 · Around 8150 BP, the Storegga tsunami struck North-west Europe. The size of this wave has led many to assume that it had a devastating impact upon contemporaneous Mesolithic communities, including the final inundation of Doggerland, the now submerged Mesolithic North Sea landscape.
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1 de jul. de 2024 · Tsunamis are relatively rare in the North Sea basin, with the Storegga tsunami being the best-known example. This event was triggered about 8200 years ago by a massive underwater landslide on the Norwegian continental slope.
18 de set. de 2018 · New research has uncovered evidence that tsunami activity in the UK is far more frequent than previously realised, with the discovery of two additional and completely unknown tsunamis that hit Shetland thousands of years after the Storegga Slide.
2 de dez. de 2020 · Then, around 6150 B.C., disaster struck: The Storegga Slide, a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway, triggered a tsunami in the North Sea, flooding the British coastline and likely...
North Sea (1858) A tsunami was reported by witnesses in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark on 5 June 1858. [15] A witness stated that at 09:15, the sea in Pegwell Bay, East Kent, "suddenly receded about 200 yards (180 m) and returned to its former position within the space of about 20 minutes". [16]
