Tsunami threat to Britain 'far more serious' than scientists originally thought
dailystar.co.ukA devastating tsunami some 8,000 years ago sent a 65-foot high tsunami racing towards the coast of what is now Scotland.A 370-mile stretch of Scotland’s northern and eastern coastline was affected, with water and debris reaching as far as eighteen miles inland.The wave of destruction is considered the largest natural disaster to hit the UK in the last 11,000 years.With present-day populations and sea levels, a similar event today could cause widespread devastation in coastal areas of Arbroath, Stonehaven, Aberdeen, Inverness, Wick, and MontroseBut scientists now say that the tsunami, caused by an undersea landslide in an area called Storegga just off the Norwegian coast, may not have been a one-off.Researchers at the University of Dundee in.
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