Damaging Tsunami Strikes Peru; Likely Underwater Landslide Origin
In Peru, a damaging tsunami just struck a significant portion of the nation’s coastline, leading to widespread damage, hundreds of sunken and damaged boats, and leading to the closure of 81 of the nation’s ports. Yet, not only are very few media outlets reporting this disaster, those that are happen to be getting the details wrong. This was a true tsunami that struck, likely due to the generation of an unusually large turbidity current or submarine landslide.
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Sources/Citations:
[1] Instituto Geofísico del Perú
[2] I.V. Fine, A.B. Rabinovich, B.D. Bornhold, R.E. Thomson, E.A. Kulikov, The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: preliminary analysis and numerical modeling, Marine Geology, Volume 215, Issues 1–2, 2005, Pages 45-57, ISSN 0025-3227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2004.11.007. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002532270400324X)
[3] U.S. Geological Survey
[4] Finn Løvholt, Irena Schulten, David Mosher, Carl Harbitz, Sebastian Krastel, 2019. “Modelling the 1929 Grand Banks slump and landslide tsunami”, Subaqueous Mass Movements and their Consequences: Assessing Geohazards, Environmental Implications and Economic Significance of Subaqueous Landslides, D.G. Lintern, D.C. Mosher, L.G. Moscardelli, P.T. Bobrowsky, C. Campbell, J. Chaytor, J. Clague, A. Georgiopoulou, P. Lajeunesse, A. Normandeau, D. Piper, M. Scherwath, C. Stacey, D. Turmel, CC BY 3.0.
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1:17 Tsunami Generation
2:10 Continental Shelf
2:59 Turbidity Current
50 Comments
Tsunamis are basin wide. Why is this locale the only one impacted. Sounds like the us gov/military is up to no good again.
Praying for them
Thank you, finally someone is talking sense about what's happened 👍👍👍👍👍
Found out about this , from several posts , from various parts , about Peru's , Tsunami . I was wondering why initialy , no earthquake reports , for those would have been headline news . With the earthquake eliminated , that left a marine landslide , to " bring home the bacon " so to say .
This is the likely mechanism for a tsunami in Eastern Australia.
I enjoy watching your channel. I have learned a great deal of information that I have been able to share with my youngest son. Who is really into geology and has an interest in becoming a volcanologist one day.
We only just became aware of this incident on watching your report. Imagine if a 6 meter wave hit Florida, the media would go into meltdown! Very interesting as usual, thanks 😊
I’m amazed by the lack of news coverage! Thank you for covering this!
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Krakatoa from Indonesia volcano may have had something to do with my fiiend. Check on the eruption about the same relative time.
Lol, what a load of crap. These waves came from strong storms in the northern Pacific.
These waves were absolutely NOT caused by a tsunami. The waves you are watching were generated in the Gulf of Alaska. The buoy reports peaked at 56 feet and all that energy spread across the Pacific Ocean and it finally made it down to the South Pacific.
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That might be the most gorgeous display of sunlight and water I've ever seen! A wave in front of a sunset, just hypnotizing…
They are not warning about this even if they have known about this for a long time cause this is cause for the people of the world closing down all of the elites shadow governments all over the world.
Look what happened in Spain when they didnt warn the people about the rains even if they knew about it.
They almost closed down the spanish government then.
And after the tsunami in 2004 they promised to put in warning systems so now they cant lie their way out of it.
All these worldwide volcanic eruptions and earth quakes and planes crashing is cause we have entered into a solar maximum and the Schumann resonance frequency spiking.
Its not safe to be in a plane now so how could they have the war between Ukraine and Russia.
A lot of deepfakes concerning the war circulating around Youtube now.
We will be lucky if it stops here.
If a solar flare comes towards earth with a Carrington storm 2.0 to follow we are all doomed.
Noone will survive it as the whole earth will be electrified turning the homes into death traps as we are literally being surrounded by electricity.
Why doesn't anyone want to talk about this, especially because California just experienced the same thing in Santa Cruz? Something going on in the Pacific Ocean?
People ae only beginning to realize that, with the demise of the newspaper, we cannot rely on TV for news. This event and the devastation in North Carolina being good examples.
I wouldn't have known about this if you hadn't covered it
Thank you for all of your hard work. This actually sounds like it could have been exactly what caused this tsunami. It totally makes sense to me
So let me get this straight, you said it’s not wind that caused the waves, yet you have zero proof of a underwater landslide. So you are guessing. Wow
Weird AI “report…” useless
I have been watching you for years now, and I am still amazed at your technical acumen and your geology knowledge. Why have major networks not reached out to you to be a specialist for their news, or for universities and scholastic Institute?
Locals are saying these are not tsunami waves. The southern hemisphere has been active year round. Southern hemi crossed with a big north probably caused this.
No es tsunami. Es oleaje formado por las tormentas del invierno en el océano Pacífico Norte. Saludos desde el Perú 🇵🇪
What a coincidence that California and Oregon are experiencing the same thing, eh? 🤔
Rubbish ! Please don't spread misinformation.
The waves have been active for several days and will continue for several more.
They have nothing to do with seismic activity.
It may get you youtube dollars, but it destroys your credibility.
Thank you for the straight story.❤
Chile has had 13 earthquakes in. 7 days some close enough to Peru to trigger your scenario.. Underwater landslide
Great analysis! The initial reason we heard was a storm swell. But since there hadn't been any mention of a storm just 2 days prior I looked at the ocean wave data and there clearly wasn't anything with enough power to generate what was being shown on the early YouTube videos.
Was there any warning for those folks?
Mostly conjecture on the part of the narrator without any real evidence. There are also warnings all across the Peruvian coast of extemely high surf for the next few days. Follow real science sites and real news rather than Youtube blogs if you want more accurate information.
It’s no surprise that the media is clueless or complicit in trying to blame it on “climate change” instead of known earth cycles.
Thank you for the update.
You explain this subject so well…. Thank You!
@GeologyHub: Excellent briefing. I'm impressed by the detailed explanation and good use of graphics. I am happy to become a new subscriber. Thanks for posting, and stay safe 🙏
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When you are actually knowledgeable in a subject and read a journalistic story that is adjacent to that subject it becomes glaringly apparent that most journalists either don't or aren't able to take the time to understand the details of the underlying mechanics of the thing they're reporting on. It becomes truly unsettling when you realize it's likely the same across all subjects and you're just not familiar enough with them (no one knows everything, after all) to see it as clearly as when they get it all wrong in your own subject of expertise.
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There was a tsunami that hit the coast of what is now Pakistan and western India in November 1945. It occurred several hours after an earthquake and is suspected of having been caused by an underwater landslide that was in turn caused by the earthquake but with some delay. I would be interested to find out more about this occurrence if any information is available, since I am sometimes working in the area that was affected and know lots of good people living there.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cvg6zrvdq7qo
What is that voice? AI gone terribly wrong.
The what!?
Why did it take over three days for this news to reach out? This day and age of internet, it's taking toi long. The Pan Pacific seismilogical faulty zone includes Peru, Chile, the US West Coast and the whole north and east of the Pacific ocean. The recent San Francisco Earthquake was also a disaster. Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Papua Niu Guini, Timor, Australia and New Zealand are also earthquake prone countries. Emergency preparation is needed.
I want to slap this AI Voiceover commentator😂
Reasons to not trust global media. They get it wrong.
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They don’t get it.
Yup, only word of this I've seen, is here. Nice work. Thanks!
The strangest thing is that the Peruvian Navy did not report this phenomenon, which suggests that they have very little knowledge. And many in the Peruvian press and Navy associated it with the anomalous waves.
This report is garbage. The waves were caused by offshore storms and continued for several days. Do a search for "Large waves wreak havoc on coastal communities and fisheries in Peru" and watch that. This was not a tsunami.
He say it is Trump's old foe.😂
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