The Destructive Switzerland Tsunami; The Tauredunum Event

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024

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  • @EarthquakeSim
    @EarthquakeSim Год назад +82

    Thanks for using my 3D landslide simulation! :) This was such an interesting topic! I never knew that even deltas could destabilize and generate a tsunami. It does make sense that the mass of loose sediments could easily start sliding towards a lower point underwater hence dislocating a large volume of water and creating the waves.

    • @GrinninPig
      @GrinninPig Год назад +5

      That simulation was so cool!

    • @deanlawson6880
      @deanlawson6880 Год назад +5

      Yes, that simulation was really excellent! I like how the Branding for this YT channel was included in the slope that slid.
      Really excellent simulation!!

    • @onemoreguyonline7878
      @onemoreguyonline7878 Год назад +1

      I love that GeologyHub cites the crap out of his videos. Really brings everyone up.

  • @Add1cted
    @Add1cted Год назад +26

    Fun Fact: There was a Tsunami in the north-eastern part auf Salzburg, Austria at the Wolgangsee Lake, which also originated from a huge landslide/rockslide that collapsed into the lake, sending out a tsunami that reflected on the other shoreline. Happened in 1907 as far as i remember correctly. Luckily no deaths where reported.

  • @antoineroquentin2297
    @antoineroquentin2297 Год назад +15

    Also remarkable was the 1513 Monte Crenone rock avalanche in southern Switzerland. The landslide blocked the river Brenno, creating a new, ~33m deep lake. 2 years after the rockslide, the dam burst, killing more than 500 people downstream.

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад +6

    Thanks! The way the first landslide triggered the second one is terrifying, and it is also quite worrying as more and more glaciers are melting more and more rapidly!
    Earthquake Sim's landslide simulation is great! Your profile picture was even included!

  • @juandiegoprado
    @juandiegoprado Год назад +10

    I’m happy you made a video about this! I live in Geneva and when I first learned that a natural disaster like that had happened I couldn’t believe it. Btw just for future reference, Nyon is pronounced “Nee-ohn” with the accent on the “ohn” and Lausanne is pronounced “Loh-san” with the accent on the “san”.

  • @eljanrimsa5843
    @eljanrimsa5843 Год назад +24

    We also had a fatal 4 m tsunami in Lake Lucerne in 1601, more conventionally triggered by a earthquake causing landslides. Since Switzerland has many earthquakes and many lakes next to steep mountainsides, tsunamis are a low-key constant danger in many locations.

    • @fallinginthed33p
      @fallinginthed33p Год назад +3

      Landslides are a constant danger in the Alps. It's sobering to see huge boulders roll downhill and smash through houses.

    • @standom2390
      @standom2390 Год назад

      That’s why I like Bern. No lakes and no mountains around it.
      Though, lakes and mountains are fav destinations in summer and winter..

  • @michaelkrell9794
    @michaelkrell9794 Год назад +5

    Writing to you from Nyon right now :)
    Pronunciations made me chuckle so I can’t help but correct them !
    Nyon should sound closer to “neo” ( not perfect but closest you can get without speaking French)
    Lausanne is pronounced like Roseanne, but with an L “Lozeanne”
    Love the vids

  • @CTP1111
    @CTP1111 Год назад +9

    visited lake geneva this summer, what an incredibly beautiful place!

  • @G.R.V-v4g
    @G.R.V-v4g Год назад +2

    Fascinating video. I was just there last week visiting friends who BTW refer to Lake Geneva as Lac Leman.

  • @melgillham462
    @melgillham462 Год назад +4

    There is somewhere here on YT a video that shows destabilized farmland actively sliding. Its terrifying to watch.

  • @skateboardingjesus4006
    @skateboardingjesus4006 Год назад +14

    🎵Slope on the water🎵.

    • @aldo5428
      @aldo5428 Год назад +1

      On the Lake Geneva shoreline…

  • @Quarterborefan
    @Quarterborefan Год назад +4

    This makes me want to suggest covering the "bridge of the gods" landslide that blocked the Columbia River within time of natives

  • @matthewsermons7247
    @matthewsermons7247 Год назад +1

    Yay, I asked about this event! PBS has a great video on the forensic geology and timeline reconstruction.

  • @carolynallisee2463
    @carolynallisee2463 Год назад +15

    If it's happened more than once since the lake formed, then its almost certain to happen again. However, humans may be able to modify areas at risk of such things to reduce that risk.

    • @EarthquakeSim
      @EarthquakeSim Год назад +7

      you are right about that! I'm sure geologists could identify many regions where landslides occurred on the lake. That area is also prone to earthquakes which could make landslides even more frequent.

    • @sterntaler64
      @sterntaler64 Год назад +3

      We have governmental maps for various risks in Switzerland. Villages with enhanced risk of landslides, rockfall, avalanches or earthquakes provide their own maps concerning inhabitated areas.

  • @OpaSpielt
    @OpaSpielt Год назад +3

    Thank you for the interesting video. 🙂
    These lakes in the alpine region of Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany are really picturesque, and therefore, many people live on the banks. Having the lakes in front of the villages and towns and the steep mountains in the back, everyone enjoys such a place, if it's the local population or the tourists.
    Luckily, I don't live there but in a flatter place in Germany. But even here, we experience catastrophic events like the flooding of July 2021.
    Back to the alps. Milder weather will cause more and more permafrost in the crest regions to disappear. And so the steep mountain tops will eventually cause more and more landslides.
    Of course, I can't prove it, but I guess landslides will increase in frequency as this century continues. And so will tsunamis in the alpine lakes of the alpine countries.
    And of course, this will happen at all lakes and fjords of countries with a similar topography and climate.
    This topic is very important and interesting.
    Thank you again, and have a nice day
    🖐🏼👴🏼

  • @shannonkohl68
    @shannonkohl68 Год назад +4

    No one expects the Swiss Tsunami!

  • @baystated
    @baystated Год назад +1

    Ooooh new simulation! Awesome!

  • @TheHairlessGibbon
    @TheHairlessGibbon Год назад +3

    Love your channel, thank you for your fine work.
    I live in Australia and am curious as to the origins of a geological anomaly we have.
    Using satellite images of the Northern Territory almost in the centre of Australia there is a roughly 500mile circle with Alice Springs at about 4 o'clock on the circular anomaly.
    Could you please have a look and give me your appraisal of what caused this ?
    Thank you again for your fine channel.

  • @anakmagsasakatv
    @anakmagsasakatv Год назад +1

    Thank you for sharing video.

  • @BongoFerno
    @BongoFerno Год назад +3

    A similar catastrophe happened at the lake of the Vajont Dam in 1963, not far from Lake Geneva.

  • @paulbennett7021
    @paulbennett7021 Год назад +3

    I wish I could derive that much knowledge from examining the countryside! With global warming & retreating glaciers, expect something similar in the next few years

  • @RoseNZieg
    @RoseNZieg Год назад +2

    it's so fascinating to see if there were any inquiry prior to the landslide, given that it took 60(?) days for the whole process to occur.

  • @727Phoenix
    @727Phoenix Год назад +6

    I keep thinking of what Neil deGrasse Tyson said: "Our universe is trying to kill us!"

  • @Vesuviusisking
    @Vesuviusisking Год назад +1

    Thanks for this interesting video

  • @marlies220
    @marlies220 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this Video. I was not aware of this fakt. Many times I been in Geneva and had no idea.

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath1 Год назад +3

    Yeah if you live in a mountainous region particularly a relatively young and recently glaciated one this kind of landslide event is pretty much inevitable as erosion gradually wears away at mountains. While there are many ways that mountains can come down it is pretty much inevitable they will come down eventually so be aware where landslides have happened in the past as that tends to point to where they will happen in the future as well. Horseshoe like scarps scarring slopes, undulating hummocky terrain, little oblong shaped lakes and ponds, drop blocks seemingly out of place there are lots of signs though they can be subtle. Developers in the US love to build on any land they can including unstable slopes if they can get away with it so buyer beware. (Developers are frankly out of control)

  • @rodofiron100
    @rodofiron100 Год назад +2

    I forget the name of it, but there is a great movie about a simular event that happend in a Norwegian fjord.

  • @nopenopenobody2971
    @nopenopenobody2971 Год назад +1

    hey
    i don‘t know the facts, but wasn‘t the shore way more in the vally? i mean the delta of the rhone as showed here isn‘t very old at all

  • @adriennefloreen
    @adriennefloreen Год назад

    Have you seen a movie called "The Wave?" it is about an event like this, maybe inspired by this. We watched it when we were stranded in a hotel, and it was one of the few available movies on TV, a few years ago.

  • @carmellapicard5742
    @carmellapicard5742 Год назад

    Thanks.

  • @tdw5933
    @tdw5933 Год назад +1

    Alaska, Ol boys 1500 feet in the air, I am surprised that a Proctologist wasn't needed to remove the boat
    I seen something like this in Norway, all because a farmer dug a foundation for a barn.

    • @nct948
      @nct948 Год назад

      wrong video?

    • @tdw5933
      @tdw5933 Год назад

      @@nct948 same premise, dislocated land. But the video I seen I believe Norway? Farmer dug a barn foundation, and the way he stacked the earth at waters edge, and everything was glacial till, after the land slide it took three farms out to the sea.

    • @nct948
      @nct948 Год назад +1

      @@tdw5933 As you were mentioning a boat, I wasn't sure you were commenting on the subject. Similar in a way to a pebble triggering an avalanche!

  • @warpdriveby
    @warpdriveby Год назад +1

    I don't think it's correct to refer to the source as "a Roman historian" because the western Roman Empire had fallen in 476CE almost a century earlier. Was it a Byzantine source via a report or, my guess, a monk or other clergy member of the Roman Church, which had kept Latin (though what is used today is hugely changed from classical Latin, this would have been far closer. I'm not trying to rag on you at all I love your channel and keep up to date on new releases, it's just a detail I can't ignore, like a splinter, and I really want to know who the source is and what they said.

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB Год назад +2

      I think it would be fair to call this source a Roman as, while the empire had fallen, it would take some time for all of the former empire to change to other cultures. After all, this event happened 87 years after the fall.

    • @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849
      @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 Год назад +2

      One of the sources describing the event was from Saint Gregory of Tours, who was Bishop of Tours, and who wrote about it in his "History of the Franks" so definitely a clergy member had written of the event. Not to mention that Churches were specifically mentioned in the video, and Gregory also wrote of them being swept away in his recounting of the event, so I'm guessing GeologyHub also took some words from Gregory's account as well.

    • @warpdriveby
      @warpdriveby Год назад

      @@LadyAnuB Unless the individual had been born in Rome the city, I have to disagree. The Roman Empire wasn't culturally or even linguistically monolithic, and in 570 it's 87 years but back then that's 4 and even 5 or 6 generations because women might marry at 12 and have a child that year, it would have been more common to have a first child around 16 but most 18 year olds were on their third... if they lived through the preceding ones anyway. Not unlike today, Lake Geveva is a place where you're going to hear more French and German (Swiss), than anything else, possibly more English than Italian as well. It's like that on lake Constance but the order is usually Italian, Germanb then others in number of speakers. There are sixth century monk's chronicles from Ireland and England that are written in Latin. but they weren't speaking that language to most other individuals, and none would have been born a Roman citizen or to one. Nearly everything you could find written before the 15th century in Europe is going to be in Latin from Magna Carta to Dante's Divine Comedy. It's really just after the printing press and the Protestant Reformation when significant numbers of texts can be found in the languages spoken by contemporary people.

  • @sim-sam
    @sim-sam Год назад

    Well done! Says a Swissguy

  • @elephantwalkersmith1533
    @elephantwalkersmith1533 Год назад +1

    Lake Leman, not Lake Geneva

    • @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849
      @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 Год назад +1

      Depends on where you are. Maybe if you're French, that's the name for it. Everyone else calls it Lake Geneva
      From Wikipedia:
      "While the exact origins of the name are unknown, the name Lacus Lemanus was in use during the time of Julius Caesar.[4] Lemannus comes from Ancient Greek Liménos Límnē (Λιμένος Λίμνη) meaning "port's lake". It became Lacus Lausonius, although this name was also used for a town or district on the lake, Lacus Losanetes, and then the Lac de Lausanne in the Middle Ages. Following the rise of Geneva it became Lac de Genève[5] (translated into English as Lake Geneva), but Le Léman was the common name on all local maps[6][7] and is the customary name in the French language. In contemporary English, the name Lake Geneva has become predominant."

  • @digitaldreamer5481
    @digitaldreamer5481 Год назад

    God, I’m really going to miss the lovely Tina Turner…RIP. ❤

  • @joeps9151
    @joeps9151 Год назад

    You really need to do something to address the quality of your audio. Your microphone picks up way to much low tones.

  • @grassnothing1631
    @grassnothing1631 Год назад

    Tsunami

  • @ZadakLeader
    @ZadakLeader Год назад +1

    Heh you need to brush up on the city names such as Nyon and Lausanne

  • @kyantampos2016
    @kyantampos2016 Год назад +1

    Can you do Mt silay in Philippines negros Occidental

  • @hobog
    @hobog Год назад

    "Seiche" versus "lake tsunami"

  • @MrAstra001
    @MrAstra001 Год назад +1

    Many Norwegian multimillionaires have moved to Switzerland for tax reasons. 🙃

  • @aurelspecker6740
    @aurelspecker6740 Год назад +1

    There is also the human made risk of tsunamis: If a large hydrodam breaks.
    Happens rarely, and in Switzerland these infrastructures are well refurbished, but what if we become reluctant. Or even worse, Switzerland is somewhen a failed state and stuff falls into disrepair, just like in Libya or the forgotten "bomb" of Lebanon...

  • @cutlerphillippe
    @cutlerphillippe Год назад +2

    1st

  • @BrandonPepper-iz6rh
    @BrandonPepper-iz6rh Год назад +1

    Didn’t see this on news or even yahoo… but I did see who Kim K is dating now…..

  • @unadavies372
    @unadavies372 Год назад

    I do wish your title would include the date you will be speaking of…before I open and find myself disappointed…I’m interested in our present days…not in history…I’m sending my best wishes…

    • @mbvoelker8448
      @mbvoelker8448 Год назад +4

      The past is the key to understanding the present. And in terms of geologic time this occurred just yesterday.

    • @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849
      @amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 Год назад +2

      @@mbvoelker8448 I'd dare say it happened just a geological minute ago, as 2000 years is but an hour to the Earth

    • @mbvoelker8448
      @mbvoelker8448 Год назад

      @@amaneyugihanako-kunofthesi8849 True. :D

  • @shufflerp3868
    @shufflerp3868 Год назад

    Wierd when I hear CE. Makes no sense what so ever. I just stop the video.

    • @TheDanEdwards
      @TheDanEdwards Год назад +2

      Modernity is knocking on your door.