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.

0:00 Peru Tsunami
1:17 Tsunami Generation
2:10 Continental Shelf
2:59 Turbidity Current