Lake tsunamis pose important menace below warming local weather

The names won’t be acquainted — Cowee Creek, Brabazon Vary, Higher Pederson Lagoon — however they mark the websites of latest lake tsunamis, a phenomenon that’s more and more widespread in Alaska, British Columbia and different areas with mountain glaciers. Triggered by landslides into small our bodies of water, most of those tsunamis have occurred in distant places thus far, however geologists say it might simply be a matter of time earlier than a tsunami swamps a extra populated place.