Greenland Hit With Tsunami – Mass Evacuations Underway
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
June 18, 2017
People from the village of Nuugaatsiaq have been ordered to evacuate their homes and seek higher ground, after a tsunami struck the coast of Greenland on Sunday.
Four people are missing after a tsunami hit Greenland’s west coast, police have confirmed. The tsunami has resulted in at least 4 people going missing and 11 homes being swept away.
Earthquake-report.com reports: At the moment of the tsunami 101 people lived in Nuugaatsiaq. 23 people are still in the village, the rest has been evacuated to Uummannaq.
Although we have no registered earthquake in the area, the Danish seismological service GEUS has confirmed to the Danish press that a M4.0 earthquake occurred in Greenland. Several villages have been inundated by the water. One of them the village of Nuugaatsiaq (see picture) 30 km south of the epicenter of the M4 earthquake.
The Danish police gives only limited information as they are trying to find out what exactly happened and how many villages sustained damage.
Shortly after the news reached Denmark, the authorities have requested the population to go for higher ground.
Greenland had similar tsunamis in the past. They were often caused by land- or seaslides.
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