Submarine landslides are marine landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean. A submarine landslide is initiated...

underwater, in which case they are called submarine landslides. Gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, but there are other factors...

Favalli, Mazzarini; Francesco, Massimiliano (1 July 2006). "Large submarine landslides offshore Mt. Etna". Geophysical Research Letters. 33 (13). GEOPHYSICAL...

volcanic landslides on Earth occur from submarine volcanoes and are several times larger than those that occur on land. Submarine landslides with volumes...

2016 Kaikōura earthquake, studies had indicated the likelihood of a submarine landslide in the canyon, potentially producing a hazardous tsunami for the...

struck the coast near Nice, accompanied by a landslide at the Nice Airport, and an aseismic submarine landslide. The two waves struck the coast between the...

ocean seafloor that does not reach to the water's surface Submarine landslide – Landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into...

may result. Submarine landslides can pose a significant hazard when they cause a tsunami. Although a variety of different types of landslides can cause...

that are supplied by rivers, or generated on the seabed by storms, submarine landslides, earthquakes, and other soil disturbances. Turbidity currents travel...

Slides (Norwegian: Storeggaraset) are amongst the largest known submarine landslides. They occurred at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian...

The massive submarine flow travelled 1,500 km (930 mi) – the distance from London to Rome. By volume, the largest submarine landslide (the Agulhas slide...

Burin Peninsula, triggered a large submarine landslide displacing (200 km3 or 48 cu mi). It snapped 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and led...

it is not a submarine volcano. It is a huge block of rocks that broke off about two million years ago at the Nuʻuanu submarine landslide when the volcano...

Prehistoric landslides that caused tsunamis include the Storegga slide 8,200 years ago, a 3,000 cubic kilometres (720 cu mi) submarine landslide off Norway...

the destructive landslide events, and of the instability of the submarine portion of the slope, from which the subsequent landslides propagated upstream...

earthquakes, submarine landslide and volcanoes. Most of the earthquakes occur on the Eurasian plate but earthquakes and submarine landslide also occur in...

Mondziel, S. A.; Grindlay, N. R.; Frohlich, C.; Mann, P. (2008). "Did a submarine landslide trigger the 1918 Puerto Rico tsunami?" (PDF). Science of Tsunami...

Investigators suggested that an estimated 60 mile per hour (100 km/h) submarine landslide or turbidity current of water saturated sediments swept 400 miles...

earthquake generated an unusually large tsunami for its size; a submarine landslide is suspected. The earthquake was caused by slip on the Flores Thrust...

avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides - including submarine landslides, tropical cyclones, volcanic activity and wildfires....

depending on water depth. Large waves produced by an earthquake or a submarine landslide can overrun nearby coastal areas in a matter of minutes. Tsunamis...

late 1980s that the entire south flank of Kīlauea is involved with submarine landslides the term "Hilina slump" has been applied by some scientists to the...

seventeen known submarine landslides around the Hawaiian Islands and at 200 kilometers (124 mi) in length, one of the largest landslides on Earth. It broke...

the remaining coastal land was flooded by a tsunami caused by a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway known as the Storegga Slide. This suggests...

halfway down the 800 metre shaft. It was detonated and caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll, causing a significant chunk of...

derived from the Greek olistomai (to slide) and stroma (accumulation). Submarine landslide Ernesto Abbate, et al., "Olistostromes and olistoliths", Sedimentary...

break. Investigators suggested that a 60-mile-per-hour (100 km/h) submarine landslide or turbidity current of water-saturated sediments swept 400 miles...

Saint Ann's Bay, are explained as the result of an entirely separate submarine landslide, also triggered by the earthquake. Estimates of current deformation...

thrust fault offshore. The extreme tsunami was likely the result of a submarine landslide. The tectonics of the North Maluku Islands is dominated by complex...

Geological Survey concluded that it was unlikely to have been caused by a submarine landslide and was probably a meteotsunami. Traces of a tsunami called the Garth...