‘Invisible’ earthquake caused mysterious 2021 tsunami, scientists find0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 22, 2022
Some tsunami-generating earthquakes are invisible to our monitoring systems.
Some tsunami-generating earthquakes are invisible to our monitoring systems.
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night. Rather, it blasted a nearly mile-high tsunami through the Gulf of Mexico that caused chaos throughout the world’s oceans, new research finds.
According to the US Geological Survey, there has NOT been any earthquake in the area which might account for such a sudden, dramatic change in ocean depth.