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TSUNAMI THREAT TO UK 'FAR MORE SERIOUS' THAN SCIENTISTS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT


THE TSUNAMI THREAT TO THE UK IS "FAR MORE SERIOUS" THAN SCIENTISTS ORIGINALLY
THOUGHT, UNEARTHED RESEARCH SHOWS.

By Charlie Pittock
11:10, Wed, Nov 3, 2021 | UPDATED: 11:10, Wed, Nov 3, 2021
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A tsunami is a series of vast waves in a water body, generally an ocean or large
lake, caused by the displacement of a large volume of water. They generally
consist of a number of waves as they arrive in a so-called “wave train”. They
can be several metres high, and can cause devastating destruction.




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Among the deadliest natural disasters in history was the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami, which left at least 230,000 people killed or missing in 14 countries.



This tsunami was caused by a 9.3 magnitude earthquake off the western coast of
Sumatra.

However, earthquakes are not the only things that can cause tsunamis.

The three Storegga Slides are some of the largest known submarine landslides in
history.

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Illustration: The tsunami threat to the UK is “far more serious” than scientists
originally thought (Image: GETTY)



The Storegga Slide caused a very large tsunami. (Image: Lamiot under CC 3.0 -
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en)

They occurred at the edge of Norway’s continental shelf, and involved a collapse
of an estimated 290km (180mi) of coastal shelf, amassing 3,500km³ (840 cubic
miles) of debris.

The resultant tsunami saw a 20-metre-high tsunami towering towards the Shetland
Islands, off the coast of Scotland.

Researchers at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews and York found this
year that around 600km (370mi) of Scotland’s northern and eastern coastline were
affected, and water reached as far as 29km (18mi) inland.

Their work, published in a research paper in Wiley’s Online Library, used
luminescence to date the sediment deposits of the site of Maryton in
Aberdeenshire.





A tsunami smashes against the coast several times with great speed and force.
(Image: GETTY)


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The wave of destruction struck over 8,000 years ago, and is considered the
largest natural disaster to hit the UK in the last 11,000 years. The displaced
water is believed to have hit Doggerland, the land bridge that linked Britain to
mainland Europe, and would have had a devastating impact on the Mesolithic
populations of the time.

However, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland found evidence of
two additional tsunamis, each at least 12m (40ft) high, thousands of years after
the Storegga Slide.

Dr Sue Dawson from the University of Dundee told the university’s website in
2018, as part of the Landslide-Tsunami project: “We found sands aged 5,000 and
1,500 years old at multiple locations in Shetland, up to 13m above sea level.
These deposits have a similar sediment character as the Storegga event and can
therefore be linked to tsunami inundation.”

The discovery triples the number of known tsunamis recorded in the UK in the
last 10,000 years.



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The 2004 tsunami devastated much of southeast Asia. (Image: GETTY)

Professor David Tappin of the British Geological Survey told the BBC at the
time: “They’re much higher frequency, and 1,500 years ago is very, very recent —
it’s 500 AD if you want to think about it like that.

“It means that the hazard — the risk — is far more serious than we thought
previously. And so what we’re trying to do now is better define it.”

Prof Tappin’s team will use the data from the deposits to create 3D simulations
of the tsunamis, and work backwards to pinpoint their sources.

Making sense of the clues, however, could take decades.









Scientists found evidence of a relatively recent tsunami. (Image: NERC BRITISH
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY)

Prof Tappin added submarine landslides are “much more poorly understood” than
other natural hazards.

He said: “They can be far larger than any landslide seen on land ‒ the Storegga
Slide contained 300 times the amount of sediment carried each year by all of the
world’s rivers combined.

“Submarine landslides can also occur on slopes of just one of two degrees, and
we still don’t know exactly how they are set in motion, except that earthquakes
are considered to be the most common trigger.

“It is critical that we learn more.”






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His findings suggest these landslides can occur anywhere in the ocean, and do
not require a steeply inclined seabed.

Further research and analysis of the sediment deposits this year from the
aforementioned universities has come to a slightly different conclusion,
however.

Mark Bateman, professor of geography at the University of Sheffield, told the
university’s website: “Although the Storegga tsunami has been known about for
years, this is the first time we have been able to model how far inland from
Scotland’s coastline the tsunami wave travelled, by analysing the soil deposits
left by the wave over 8,000 years ago.



“Though there is no similar threat from Norway today, the UK could still be at
risk from flooding events from potential volcanic eruptions around the world,
such as those predicted in the Canary Islands.

“These would cause a similar resulting tsunami wave due to the amount of
material that would be displaced by the volcano. These models give us a unique
window into the past to see how the country was, and could again be, affected.”




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