Incredible Glacier Calving & Tsunami Wave Caught On Camera (Greenland)
ID: LIS-01-0064
Format: HD
Location: Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland
Description

Even though not commonly known, huge waves created by glacier calving events can be considered as actual tsunami waves in some cases. Huge Icebergs collapsing and breaking from the Ilulissat Glacier are often up to 3,000 feet in (total) height (1,000 meter). This stunning video captures multiple huge icebergs flipping over and collapsing. Due to the enormous amount of ice falling into the water and the flipping of multiple icebergs, this calving event triggered a series of tsunami waves which still had an height of up to 16 feet (5 m) when they reached the shore. Please note that this video is filmed from a hill allowing the camera man to capture the whole spectacle without changing his position. The Ilulissat Icefjord drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Greenland is home to the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica and its ice sheet covers 3/4 of Greenland's land mass. But in the last 25 years, the Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018 and having added 11 millimeters to sea level rise (Find out more here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7556). According to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University (published 2020), Greenland's ice sheet has melted to a point of no return.

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