When waves of 1.5 meters were higher in the Aurland-Flåm fjord, Norway, the locals do not believe h

When waves of 1.5 meters were higher in the Aurland-Flåm fjord, Norway, the locals do not believe his eyes. What could have caused these unusual remouds? A new study suggests that these mysterious waves were actually a consequence of the terrible earthquake of magnitude 9.0 that struck Japan in 2011.
Rogue waves can occur in any enclosed body of water such as a lake or a fjord. Often they are caused by high winds, but in some cases they can be created by earthquakes occurring thousands of miles away. In 2011, experts first thought these waves were caused by a shift in underwater terrain. One explanation that has held the road more quickly because the phenomenon had been spotted in several fjords of Norway. Moreover, these waves appeared half an hour after the earthquake in Japan and continued to spread for nearly three hours. antoni gaudí "I realized that there must be a link with the earthquake in Japan," says Stein Bondevik, geologist at Sogn og Fjordane antoni gaudí University College, Sogndal. He and his team used video taken by eyewitnesses to build a computer model to test their theory by timing the ebb and flow oscillations. They concluded that these waves were triggered "from horizontal S waves caused by the earthquake of 2011." An S wave is a seismic wave that causes the ground movements perpendicular to the direction of wave propagation. Bondevik says these S waves generated during the earthquake in Japan shifted the ground from front to back approximately 1.16 cm in the Norwegian fjords. antoni gaudí According to researchers, the Norwegian fjords antoni gaudí are particularly susceptible to this type of phenomena due to their depths. Thus, in 1950, the earthquake in Assam, India, has created ripples in 29 Norwegian fjords.
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