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Climate change can trigger deadly tsunamis from Antarctica: Study
Updated On: 30 May, 2023 03:14 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Submarine landslides are a major geohazard with the potential to trigger tsunamis that can lead to huge loss of life. The landslides can also destroy infrastructure including subsea cables, meaning future such events would create a wide range of economic and social impacts
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As climate change heats the oceans, researchers think that there`s a possibility that these tsunamis could be unleashed once more, they said, stressing the immediate need for mitigation efforts. Photo Courtesy: iStock
A new study has warned that increasing global climate change - including warmer waters, rising sea levels and shrinking ice sheets can give rise to deadly tsunamis from Antarctica. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, is based on analysis of past underwater landslides in Antarctica.
An international team of researchers, led by those from University of Plymouth, in the U.K. said that the future seismic events off the coast of Antarctica might again pose a risk of tsunami waves reaching the shores of South America, New Zealand and Southeast Asia.
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