The internet tells me that Tsunamis occur most often in the Pacific Ocean and Indonesia because the Pacific Rim bordering the Ocean has a large number of active submarine earthquake zones. However, they do occasionally happen in places where you don’t expect like in a Greenland fjord.
This stunning footage is just surfacing from 2017 when a landslide triggered a huge tsunami in a remote village in Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland.
We see fishermen trying to secure their boats/livelihood in anticipation of the destructive wave coming their way. The sickening feeling of something coming at you and not being able to do anything to prevent it must be the most helpless feeling in the world. Luckily all three were able to escape the wave just in time but the aftermath was devastating: four people were killed and several building were just washed away into the sea as if they never existed.
They say, a rising tide raises all boats, as a metaphor for prosperity – unfortunately doesn’t apply in this case.
[YouTube: Licet Studios]
