A landslide triggered the Storegga tsunami 8,200 years ago. Researchers want to know if it caused a population decline that happened around then.

A prehistoric tsunami that occurred more than 8,000 years ago may have devastated Stone Age coastal communities, a study has revealed. The event, known as the Storegga tsunami, affected a large ...

A MEGA TSUNAMI that smashed Scotland 8,200 years ago would devastate entire towns if it happened today, according to new research. The Storegga tsunami, which affected 373 miles (600km) of coastlin… ...

The Storegga tsunami was triggered when submarine glacial and interglacial sediments on the coastal slopes of Norway's continental shelf shifted. In their study, ...

The Storegga tsunami in about 6200 B.C. caused a mega-tsunami throughout the North Atlantic; tell-tale sediments left by the tsunami have been discovered around the region.

Modelling reveals Storegga tsunami that hit Scotland 8,200 years ago would wipe out whole towns today. The ancient wave would have devastated the Scottish town of Montrose - home to 12,000 people.

About 8,200 years ago, an underwater landslide known as the Storegga slide near Norway triggered a tsunami that engulfed parts of northern Europe. Around the same time, there was a massive dip in ...

This giant tsunami could have destroyed Stone Age populations in northern Britain. The research focused on Scientists from the University of York in England have discovered that a huge tsunami with ...

A mega-tsunami with gigantic waves reaching up to 65 feet submerged large parts of Northern Europe over 8,000 years ago and led to a massive dip in Stone Age Britain’s population, a new study ...

The locations of the Storegga slide and Storegga tsunami sediment deposits (red circles) with the run-up heights at each location indicated (produced in QGIS; based on Bateman et al, 2021). Credit ...

A MEGA TSUNAMI that smashed Scotland 8,200 years ago would devastate entire towns if it happened today, according to new research. The Storegga tsunami, which affected 373 miles (600km) of coastlin… ...