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
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...
Published in: | Earth Surface Dynamics |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Copernicus Publications
2020
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-1021-2020 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00055168 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00054819/esurf-8-1021-2020.pdf https://esurf.copernicus.org/articles/8/1021/2020/esurf-8-1021-2020.pdf |