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07-16-2018, 01:38 PM
Massive 11-million-ton iceberg towers over little village in Greenland
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A colossal 11-million ton iceberg is towering over a tiny Greenland village, captured in one of the most jaw-dropping photos you'll see this week.
Taken by Karl Petersen on Friday, the photograph shows an enormous 650-feet-wide iceberg sitting dangerously close to the village of Innarsuit, an island settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.*
SEE ALSO: Antarctica is losing billions of tons of ice each year, sharply boosting sea levels (https://mashable.com/2018/06/13/antarctica-ice-melt-sea-level-rise/)
Why is this a threat? According to Greenland national newspaper Sermitsiaq (http://sermitsiaq.ag/borger-innaarsuitfoeler-trygge), some residents of the 169-population village have evacuated for fear of a tsunami, if parts of the iceberg start breaking off this close to the village's shore, causing large waves. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/15/iceberg-greenland/)
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A colossal 11-million ton iceberg is towering over a tiny Greenland village, captured in one of the most jaw-dropping photos you'll see this week.
Taken by Karl Petersen on Friday, the photograph shows an enormous 650-feet-wide iceberg sitting dangerously close to the village of Innarsuit, an island settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.*
SEE ALSO: Antarctica is losing billions of tons of ice each year, sharply boosting sea levels (https://mashable.com/2018/06/13/antarctica-ice-melt-sea-level-rise/)
Why is this a threat? According to Greenland national newspaper Sermitsiaq (http://sermitsiaq.ag/borger-innaarsuitfoeler-trygge), some residents of the 169-population village have evacuated for fear of a tsunami, if parts of the iceberg start breaking off this close to the village's shore, causing large waves. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/15/iceberg-greenland/)
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