Storegga (Norwegian: Great Edge) is located at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km (62 mi) north-west of the Møre coast. In around 6200 BCE, structural failures of the shelf caused three underwater landslides, which triggered very large tsunamis in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The coast of Cornwall was hit by a 3 m (10 ft) high tsunami on 1 November 1755, at around 14:00. The waves were caused by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The tsunami took almost four hours to reach the UK. The tsunami was also observed along the south coast of England and on the River Thames in London. [6]

May 1, 2014 · A prehistoric "Atlantis" in the North Sea may have been abandoned after being hit by a 5m tsunami 8,200 years ago. The wave was generated by a catastrophic subsea landslide off the coast of...

Jan 8, 2024 · The tsunami, triggered by a huge submarine landslide off the coast of western Norway between 8,120 and 8,175 years ago, generated waves of up to around 40 feet in height along the Norwegian coast...

Dec 1, 2020 · Around 8150 BP, the Storegga tsunami struck North-west Europe. The size of this wave has led many to assume that it had a devastating impact upon contemporaneous Mesolithic communities, including the final inundation of Doggerland, the …

Nov 12, 2015 · Almost 8,200 years ago, a piece of the seabed about the size of Iceland, slipped off the continental shelf, west of Norway. The geological event resulted in giant tsunamis with waves up to 20 meters high that washed over Iceland, Greenland, Norway, Faroe …

Most geologists maintain that nearly the entire volume of the scar was the result of a landslide that took place approximately 8,400–7,800 years ago. The timing of this event coincides with a catastrophic tsunami that affected several coastal areas bordering the Norwegian and North seas.

Jul 5, 2021 · The resulting tsunamis impacted the entire North Atlantic Ocean. What caused the Storegga Slide? As it happened so long ago, no-one is 100% sure what triggered the event. But there are two leading theories. Firstly, an earthquake could have triggered a catastrophic expansion of methane clathrate.

Around 8,200 years ago, a massive multi-phase submarine landslide (the Storegga Slide) off the continental shelf of Central Norway caused a tsunami to hit the coastlines of west Norway, Scotland, and around the southern North Sea basin. This was seemingly the largest tsunami event to hit this area since at least the beginning of the Holocene.

Feb 28, 2023 · The Storegga Slide is the largest known exposed submarine landslide in the world, which triggered a tsunami that inundated the coasts of northern Europe ~8,150 years ago. Previous studies...