1929 Newfoundland Bank Tsunami
On November 18, 1929 at around 5 p.m., a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Newfoundland Bank off Newfoundland , Canada . The earthquake did not cause any major damage as the epicenter was about 250 km south in the sea. But the quake triggered a tsunami . A total of three waves hit the Burin Peninsula , killing 28 people and leaving 10,000 homeless. The cause of the tsunami was found to be an underwater slide that destroyed around a dozen submarine cables . The chronological sequence of the failures and the roughly known position of the cables made it possible to reconstruct the extent and direction of the landslide. This recognized that the mass movement flowed unusually far and quickly. The reason for this is presumed that it was a turbid flow from very water-rich sediments .
Web links
- Description of the tsunami (pdf) (English)
- Scientific evaluation (pdf; 2.3 MB) (2005, English)
literature
- Richard Lovett: Histories: The wave from nowhere. New Scientist No. 2592, February 14, 2007, p. 52 (preview)
Coordinates: 44 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 57 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W.