Evidence of tsunamis in the UK

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In the UK, evidence of recent tsunamis lies right beneath our feet!

We team up with Dr Sue Dawson from the University of Dundee, to explore this evidence in some tsunami hazards fieldwork on the east coast of Scotland.

Acknowledgements

Written and developed by: Sue Dawson, Jaco Baas, Simon Cook, Jonathan Malarkey, Rob Parker, Harriet Ridley, Tim Parker, Simon Ross

Videography by: Liam Matthews, Rob Parker

Attributions

Thank you to Steven Ward for permission to use his wonderful Storegga landslide and tsunami animations in this video.

"NOAA Tsunami Animation" video by NOAA is licensed under Public Domain

"Greenland-ice_sheet_hg" photo by Hannes Grobe is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5

"Scotland outline" is available under Public Domain

"1755 Lisbon earthquake" photo is available under Public Domain