Researchers recommend a warning system for Greenland hamlets flooded by 2017 tsunami
A future landslide could cause waves up to three times larger than the one in 2017 that killed four and forced two hamlets to be abandoned.
The calculations are highly uncertain, but the recommendation is clear: A warning system could spell the difference between life and death for residents of the hamlets along a Greenland fjord system flooded by a 2017 tsunami that claimed the lives of four people.
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