1979 Nice tsunami

Tsunami in Nice, France The Nice tsunami of 1979 came on October 16. Two tsunamis struck the coast near Nice, accompanied by a landslide at the Nice Airport, and an aseismic submarine landslide. The two waves struck the coast between the Italian border and the town of Antibes (60 miles; 96 km).Allaby, M. (2004). A Chronology of Weather. Infobase Publishing. They reached 3 m high near Nice and 3.5 mSahal Alexandre Lemahieu Anne The 1979 nice airport tsunami: mapping of the flood in Antibes Natural Hazards 56 3 2010 0921-030X 10.1007/s11069-010-9594-6 833–840 128751536 at La Salis (Antibes) and decreased in amplitude from there. Causes The origin of these events has been a subject of academic and judicial debate.Lee Homa J. Locat Jacques Desgagns Priscilla Parsons Jeffrey D. McAdoo Brian G. Orange Daniel L. Puig Pere Wong Florence L. Dartnell Peter Boulanger Eric 2007 Continental Margin Sedimentation Submarine Mass Movements on Continental Margins Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Oxford, UK 978-1-4443-0439-8 10.1002/9781444304398.ch5 213–274 One hypothesis said that it was the landslide at the Nice airport; while the other stated that it was an underwater landslide.Seed, H. B. (1988). The landslide at the Port of Nice on October 16, 1979. Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California. A 0.15 km3Nisbet Euan G. Piper David J. W. Giant submarine landslides Nature 392 6674 1998 0028-0836 10.1038/32765 329–330 1998Natur.392..329N free slide took place off Nice airport while constructing the fill of the new airport, perhaps as a consequence of this work. This landslide would have caused the first tsunami. The material from this slide could have caused a submarine slide that would have caused the second tsunami. In the second hypothesis, the major natural submarine landslide (~8.7 km2) that occurred offshore Nice caused a tsunami which would have caused a landslide of the fill of the new airport. This landslide caused another tsunami. Consequences Casualty estimates range between 8 and 23.Rana, S. V. S. (2007). Essentials of ecology and environmental science. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. At the construction site, the collapsing fill killed seven people. The tsunamis inundated a 20-mile section of the coast.Dudley, W. C., & Lee, M. (1998). Tsunami!. University of Hawaii Press. The water travelled up to 150 m inland. Eleven people were swept away in Nice and one in Antibes. The airport works were finished, but this event forestalled the construction of a new port for Nice. References 43.6464 N 7.2157 E source:wikidata title Category:20th century in Nice Category:1979 natural disasters Category:Landslides in Europe Category:Natural disasters in France Category:1970s tsunamis Category:1970s landslides Category:October 1979 in Europe