Landslide-triggered tsunamis can strike without warning. Alaska researchers are trying to change that.

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Human-caused climate change may lead to more wave-generating slides. A new method could help detect them in time.

Alaska is home to breathtaking fjords, massive glaciers and a lot of mountainous nooks and crannies where nobody lives.

Seismic records from a landslide at Barry Arm. The left depicts both short-period and long period waves. On the right, long-period waves only. “When you only search for the landslide signal, the other signals become like noise to you, and you want to get rid of them,” Karasözen said. Karasözen says a detection system like this is more important now than ever because the risk of megatsunamis is growing as human-caused climate change melts glaciers.

 

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