Greenland Ice Collapse Producing Earthquakes
Chilling from-the-scene update on my Greenland on Verge of Meltdown article in August: the Greenland ice cap is melting so quickly that it is triggering earthquakes as pieces of ice several cubic kilometres in size break off says Guardian reporter in Greenland.
UPDATE:
Here is a satellite view of Lulissat, Vestgronland Greenland just pan and zoom to the upper glacier to see the meltwater on the ice (not sure when this satellite pic was taken)
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Tipping point: Greenland ice melt shakes Earth « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub
08/09/2007 at 8:00 pm
Magnitude of the quakes varies between 1 and 3.
On the Richter scale, a magnitude 3 quake is barely perceptible to humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_scale
Anonymous
10/09/2007 at 9:13 am