Ancient Tsunami Was Nearly As Tall As The Eiffel Tower, Scientists Say

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An general group of scientists has found justification that an approximately 800-foot-tall tsunami was generated when a eastern slope of a Cape Verde islands’ Fogo volcano, off a seashore of West Africa, collapsed into a sea some 73,000 years ago.

The gigantic call trafficked some-more than 30 miles from Fogo to a circuitously island of Santiago, where it pushed around outrageous boulders like pebbles, according to investigate published Friday in a journal Science Advances

And, theoretically, such an eventuality could occur again.

“This is something that might occur in any volcano that is tall, steep, inconstant and active adequate to be disposed to a collapse,” Dr. Ricardo Ramalho, an accessory scientist during Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

“Volcanic side collapses and their indirect mega-tsunamis — like a one of Fogo — are what we scientists call ‘very low frequency, really high impact events,'” he said. “Due to their really low frequency, we guess that a luck for them to occur again is really small, though they might and will occur nevertheless.”

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