“How big can a tsunami really get?”

Last updated on: January 7, 2017 at 9:31 pm by Dan Peterson

Geirangerfjorden — My wife and I stood at this very place near the end of August. (Wikimedia Commons)

Some time ago, I mentioned Bølgen (“The Wave”), a really impressive — that is, quite terrifying — 2015 Norwegian drama that my wife and I had recently watched. It’s about the all-too-real possibility of a landslide and a resulting megatsunami in Norway’s glorious Geirangerfjord, a tourist mecca that we visited most recently last August.

Bølgen poster — Film poster for “Bølgen” (Wikimedia Commons fair use)

One of my readers has complained, sometimes, about what he sees as my propensity to feature “Wow!” scientific items. I don’t apologize for it. Here’s another:

http://vaviper.blogspot.com/2017/01/how-big-can-tsunami-really-get.html