A massive 650-foot mega-tsunami hit Greenland after a huge rockslide in a fjord, and it shook the Earth! This wasn’t your usual wave—it was caused by a big chunk of rock crashing into the water. The force sent a massive wall of water rushing through the fjord, swallowing everything in its path. It was so powerful that scientists recorded it as a major event. Thankfully, these types of tsunamis are rare, but when they happen, they can be devastating. Imagine a wave as tall as a building speeding towards you—that’s the power of nature at its wildest! Animation is created by Bright Side. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/ Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:00On September 16th of 2023, without warning, the Earth began to hum.
00:10A low, strange vibration reverberated through the crust.
00:15This set off seismic alarms all across the globe.
00:18For nine days straight, the planet was pulsing with this horrifying rhythm, and scientists
00:23had no idea what was going on.
00:26Meanwhile, the total disaster was happening in Greenland.
00:33It wasn't an earthquake.
00:35They knew that much.
00:36They could tell it by the rhythm.
00:38Since we all live on giant tectonic plates, they constantly move and slide on magma like
00:44icebergs on water.
00:46Sometimes as they move, they can rub against each other or collide or break.
00:50In any case, all this causes an incredible release of energy that sends shockwaves through
00:55the ground.
00:56That's when we feel the ground literally shaking, and it's what we call an earthquake.
01:01These vibrations we feel are called seismic waves.
01:05Seismometers pick them up as pings or rumbles.
01:08In a typical earthquake, they create a bunch of different frequencies.
01:12It's a crazy chaotic mix of low and high frequencies, like smashing every piano key.
01:19What was weird about the Greenland event is that the signals weren't like that at all.
01:24It was a steady, single-frequency vibration, as if some ancient machine was stirring beneath
01:29the earth.
01:30It's like one piano key being struck over and over, creating a doom-like, repetitive
01:36sound.
01:39Turns out, what they were hearing wasn't the noise of tectonic plates going wild.
01:44It was a phenomenon seismologists had never seen before.
01:50The days passed, and the mysterious noise just kept going.
01:54The vibrations repeated every 90 seconds, echoing around the world.
01:59The hunt for answers was growing more desperate.
02:02Seismologists had no idea what they were dealing with.
02:05They had to gather a huge international team of 68 people from 15 countries.
02:11All these scientists were gathering seismic data, satellite images, and doing some advanced
02:16math for several days, until they finally realized who the culprit was.
02:23Water.
02:24It all happened in a remote, desolate region of East Greenland.
02:28This place is full of fjords, narrow inlets of the sea between high cliffs, kinda like
02:33deep water-filled valleys surrounded by towering rocky sides.
02:38In this area, surrounded by jagged peaks and icy waters, the air was still, the landscape
02:44seemingly frozen in time.
02:47Nothing here changed much for years.
02:49Until one day.
02:53A colossal landslide has unfolded in the Dixon Fjord.
02:58One of those steep mountainsides towering over the fjord at almost 4,000 feet high collapsed
03:03in a massive landslide.
03:05Picture a huge chunk of this mountain crumbling and crashing down into the fjord below.
03:12This sent a deluge of rock and ice crashing into the water.
03:16The impact was just apocalyptic, 882 million cubic feet of debris.
03:23That's enough ice and rock to fill 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, or 10 Great
03:29Pyramids of Giza.
03:31And all this nightmare hurled into the water with such force that it kick-started a tsunami
03:36about 360 feet high, taller than the Statue of Liberty, into the air.
03:43What's crazy is that this incredibly powerful wave was trapped in the fjord by narrow cliffs,
03:48unable to escape.
03:50It's like water sloshing in a closed bathtub.
03:53For nine days, the mega-tsunami continued to churn through it.
03:57That's why we heard this endless hum.
04:00It was a rhythmic back and forth of the water slamming against the walls.
04:04The shock waves were rippling deep into Earth's crust, vibrations so strong that they were
04:09picked up by seismometers around the globe.
04:13This was a phenomenon so rare, so unprecedented, that it left scientists stunned.
04:19It turned out to be a perfect storm of elements.
04:21A glacier, weakened by years of warming, could no longer bear the weight of the mountain
04:27above.
04:30This collapse was inevitable, and the chaos literally shook the Earth to its core.
04:35And people often hang out in this area with cruise ships passing by.
04:39We're lucky that no lives were lost in the disaster.
04:43It was a close call though.
04:45A tourist ship stranded in the area just two days before narrowly escaped the tsunami's
04:50reach by pure luck.
04:52But it doesn't mean there were no losses.
04:54The waves destroyed a nearby Inuit site, which was there untouched for over 200 years.
05:02They also swept away the huts at a research station that were about 43 miles away.
05:07The vibrations traveled from Greenland to the South Pole in less than an hour.
05:13That just shows how dangerous events like this can be.
05:18And this isn't the only place where such catastrophes are happening.
05:22In the beautiful California community of Rancho Palos Verdes, the ground is shifting
05:27so quickly that it's tearing homes apart.
05:30The land there has always been kinda unstable.
05:34It has some unique geology.
05:36It's built on soft, clay-rich soil and sits on a geological fault line, which makes it
05:41prone to landslides.
05:44This means that this land is prone to slow, natural shifting over many years, even when
05:49no crazy weather is happening.
05:51It's been like this for decades, but usually it's slow and pretty manageable.
05:56Like about a foot a year.
05:58Imagine a tree that you played with as a kid moving 20 feet to the left as you grow up.
06:04For decades, residents adapted.
06:06They built their homes on adjustable beams.
06:09This helped the houses to move with the land.
06:11And that strategy worked well, until now.
06:15Recently, things have been getting much worse in the community.
06:21Now the land is moving by a foot in a single week.
06:24That would be like if the same tree moved almost 960 feet since you were a child.
06:30The past two years have also caused some heavy rains, and the weather has been getting worse.
06:36This increased water content in the soil.
06:39The land became heavier and more prone to rapid movement.
06:43Now this once idyllic seaside escape turned into a disaster zone.
06:48Tracks have appeared in closets, gardens and roads, growing larger with each passing day.
06:54Streets that were once smooth are now buckled and twisted, with roads turning into a crazy
06:59theme park.
07:00Houses that once stood firm are being ripped from their foundations, some of them split
07:05in half.
07:07One of the houses had its front door 8 feet off the ground.
07:11Entire neighborhoods have been plunged into chaos.
07:14Utility companies had to switch off gas and electricity indefinitely to prevent potential
07:19disasters.
07:22The hardest hit is the coastal neighborhood of Portuguese Bend, where residents are living
07:27on the edge, literally.
07:29It always had amazing ocean views and cool sea breezes, with horses and peacocks still
07:35wandering the tree-lined streets.
07:37But now it's like an earthquake hit, only this time the earth isn't stopping.
07:43For many, this place feels like paradise, if only the land would stop shifting beneath
07:48their feet.
07:49So the locals don't give up.
07:51Some of them had to leave, but many are determined to stay and fight, despite the destruction.
07:56But they still have to pour in hundreds of thousands of dollars to save their properties.
08:01People have installed generators to keep the lights on and set up sewer systems and pumps
08:05to drain the groundwater causing the landslides.
08:09Some say that the only way for these neighborhoods to survive might be to go completely off-grid,
08:15installing power walls to store energy and stuff like that.
08:18People are trying their best to run the sewer system off generators.
08:22They hope that they could get rid of this water in the soil that's causing these hellish
08:25landslides in the first place.
08:28They're determined to fight, but they will need help and support from the government
08:31to fight this disaster.
08:36Landslides are actually more common across the US than many might think, and new maps
08:40and data show that tons of people in the country might be in danger.
08:45Scientists managed to create the first very detailed, very cool map that shows where these
08:50landslides might happen, county by county.
08:54It's based on a lot of data and the history of 1 million previous landslides.
08:59They say that nearly 40% of the United States is at risk of experiencing landslide activity,
09:05which could lead to some insane catastrophes in certain areas.
09:09Luckily, now both residents and engineers can keep this in mind.
09:13But all this shows how vulnerable we are to natural disasters, and how we should always
09:18stay alerted.