Evolution of events before and after the 17 June 2017 rock avalanche at Karrat Fjord, West Greenland – a multidisciplinary approach to detecting and locating unstable rock slopes in a remote Arctic area

• Published in: Earth Surface Dynamics
• Main Authors: K. Svennevig, T. Dahl-Jensen, M. Keiding, J. P. Merryman Boncori, T. B. Larsen, S. Salehi, A. Munck Solgaard, P. H. Voss
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: Dynamic and structural geology; QE500-639.5; Arctic; Greenland; Nuugaatsiaq; Karrat Fjord; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-1021-2020; https://doaj.org/article/0040bc7e83844e7a8421b49e1df9a79b

The 17 June 2017 rock avalanche in the Karrat Fjord, West Greenland, caused a tsunami that flooded the nearby village of Nuugaatsiaq and killed four people. The disaster was entirely unexpected since no previous records of large rock slope failures were known in the region, and it highlighted the ne...