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howard941
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Do underwater avalanches pose a tsunami threat?
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bell-cot
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Oh, yes. Depends on the avalanche's size (& location & etc.) - but (say) this one is hypothesized to have killed ~1/4 of the at-the-time population of Britain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
CaptainJack
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Yes. Close to us, there was a landslide-caused tsunami in Nice, France back in 1979:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami
rqtwteye
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I think there was one 100 years ago somewhere on the Canada coast that caused a tsunami and killed some people.
actionfromafar
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And one 250 years or so ago, stories of canoes in tree tops and such.
philshem
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Can also happen in inland lakes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event
dboreham
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See: the Forth Estuary.
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