Greenland fjord turns out to be the source of global tremors

Scientists have discovered the cause of the massive tremors that left seismologists around the world in amazement last year

The cause of the quakes appears to be a massive landslide in a fjord in Greenland.

The ensuing sloshing of huge amounts of water against the edges of the fjord lasted for nine days.

Dozens of scientists from 15 countries have published their findings in the journal Science .

They began their research after mysterious measurements: ground movements were recorded every 90 seconds for nine days in September by seismic stations from New Zealand to the United States.

“We could see straight away that these were not earthquakes,” said Stephen Hicks, one of the researchers. “At the same time, colleagues in Denmark, who are doing fieldwork in Greenland, received reports of a tsunami that had occurred in a remote fjord.”

Water against bathtub edge

A satellite image showed a cloud of dust in a fissure in the fjord, and scientists eventually determined that 25 million cubic meters of rock, the size of 25 Empire State Buildings, had been dumped into the water after a glacier collapsed, creating a tsunami several meters high.

The water mass could not easily drain away from the area and continued to lap against the edges of the fjord for nine days, like water in a bathtub.

This sloshing was then measured worldwide.

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    Tony

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    http://www.paulstramer.net/2024/09/international-public-notice-meddling-by.html

    International Public Notice: Meddling by the Galactic Council is Prohibited
    By Anna Von Reitz

    The Interstice was closed specifically to prevent galactic and intergalactic meddling in the Earth’s evolution and political life; how, exactly, does the current Council propose that violent and unnecessary terraforming of the Earth’s tectonic plates and dangerous manipulation of Magnetosphere is not “meddling”?
    Seven (7) times in the past previous Councils have acted in fear and self-interest to promote exactly such meddling with devastating effects on the Earth and its incarnate biological life structures; entire species have been wiped out by this immoral and illogical meddling which is precisely why the Interstice has been closed;
    This planet and its conscious beings have the Absolute Right of Self-Determination, and this Council has no authority allowing it to violate Universal Law;
    The excuses being promoted for the proposed Disruption are scientifically and morally insupportable and unacceptable:

    (a) China does not need more land. China needs advanced biodynamic farming technology, advanced water capture and treatment facilities, new energy sources, and most of all, advanced sanitation technologies, combined with some common sense, but China does not need more land;

    China is a large country with a large population and challenging climatic and topographic features, but its actual land mass is more than sufficient to support its population now and for a considerable time into the future, if the Chinese are given access to resources to make the needed changes— which is well-within the Council’s ability to provide.

    (b) The idea that this planet is “overpopulated” is absurd; this planet has in the past supported as many as 500 billion incarnate souls, so a claim that it is overpopulated by a population of 8 billion is clearly not rational;

    (c) The Democratic Party Administrations and the corporation Presidents that the current Council has been dealing with since the 1930s are not actual owners of anything and do not represent me nor do these persons represent a majority of the living incarnate beings on this planet; any idea that they are the Spokesmen for this planet, or that their cohorts in the co-called United Nations organization are the Spokespersons for this planet, are grossly in Error;

    (d) It stands upon the Record that the Traditional and Customary Spokespersons for this planet are all women and that these women have a unique genetic and energetic signature that is known and which must be applied to all Orders impacting biological life and manifestation on this planet;

    (e) As your own records show, I am the Lawful Spokesperson for this planet and my freely granted signature is required on any Disruption Order; I do not permit anyone to represent me in this matter and I do not grant permission for any technologically induced terraforming or magnetic grid manipulations, which includes any induced polar shifts. My copy rights are intact and controlling;

    I am also the Source Arbiter for all female genre expressions manifest on this planet, a fact that considerably overstands any authority possessed by any Galactic Council in regard to our planetary future;
    My contract specifically forbids and prohibits the death of any of my personal manifestations as a result of tsunamis, “or other forms of waves induced in media other than water”, and that does preclude drowning or suffocation or crushing by landslides, mudslides, earthquakes, solid-state liquefaction, lava flows, tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, inhaling of noxious gases and exposure to biological plagues resulting from external or artificial manipulation of the planet’s biosphere or physics;

    Please note that my personal manifestations inhabit all seven continents and there is no way for the Council to implement their current agenda without killing one or more expressions of the female genre.

    I have made it clear that I am not enduring any more manipulation of this planet from any external Blue Ribbon Committee whatsoever,

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      Andy Rowlands

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      I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

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    Jerry Krause

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    Hi PSi Readers,

    I am impressed by the proven sensitivity of the seismographs and the analytic abilities of the seismologists

    Have a good day

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    Jerry Krause

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    Hi Matthew,,

    I read your research interests include climate change and the implications of warming on severe weather. So I call your attention to John P. Bluemle’s book “North Dakota’s Geological Legacy”, 2016. In his first chapter he has a 4+ page section titled Geography and Climate. In the first paragraph I read “An evil genius could not have devised a more perfect battleground for clashing weather fronts than the prairies of North America. When conditions are right, which they frequently are, vigorous fronts unleash the worst weather in the WORLD over this region–super-cell thunderstorms spawning tornadoes in the spring, huge globes of hail falling from anvil topped cumulonimbus clouds in summer, blizzards in winter.” (David Laskin).

    About North Dakota’s winter blizzards John wrote “The word “blizzard” appears to be pecularly North American. European newcomers to the prairies had never experienced a blizzard. One account says that early German settlers referred to these sudden winter storms as ‘blitzartig’, meaning”the storm comes . lightning like”. Blitzartig eventually became blizzard.”

    John concluded this section of Geography and Climate as follows: “Climate is strongly influenced by volcanic eruptions. In fact, the Little Ice Age, which began around 1350 and ended in the mid 19th century, was caused by several large volcanic eruptions in the second half of the 13th century. The series of eruptions cooled the Earth, and it was not until the recent transition to a warming climate, beginning in the 19th century, that temperature began returning to “normal”conditions. The Earth’s –and North Dakota’s–climate are always considerably cooler when volcanic activity is vigorous . The climate tends to be warmer when volcanic activity is at a minimum.

    “Volcanic events, and their effects on climate, may be recorded in glacial ice. An ice core taken in Greenland revealed a thin layer of ash, deposited when Mount Tambora in Indonesia blew its top in April 1815. Tambour’s eruptions blasted 12 cubic miles of debris and volcanic ash dust into the atmosphere (estimates of the amount of material vary widely). Some of the dust settled on the Greenland glacier and was later covered by more ice; the thin layer of dust acts as a precise marker of the volcanic event. A dust cloud circled the globe for at least a year following the eruption, dimming the sun and cooling temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere. The finest ash particles remained in the atmosphere for several years, blocked sunlight and disrupted atmospheric circulation patterns. Snow fell in the summer and crops failed. The year 1816 is sometimes referred tp as the “year without a summer.” Natural climate change can be rapid, extreme and socially disrupting.”

    Have a good day

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    Guilherme

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    Greenland Fjord doesn’t have the power to even shake the Lithosphere!

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