Giant iceberg looming over the village in Greenland

Giant iceberg overhanging a village in GreenlandPhoto from open sources

In Greenland, residents of a small village were urgently evacuated Innaarsuit, since to the coast where this village is located, a huge iceberg swam up, about to split, flooding wave coastal buildings.

This terrible ice block told reporters local newspaper Sermitsiaq village council member Susanne Eliassen, literally hung over the village, besides, it seems that the iceberg sat stranded and not going to sail. This threatens not only homes, but and power plants and fuel reserves adjacent to her.

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About two hundred people live in the village, especially dangerous an iceberg has become for those whose houses are literally on the seashore, why these residents were evacuated in the first place. At present time, experts observe the behavior of a huge block of ice near Innaarsuit, according to experts, there are already many holes in the iceberg and cracks, and therefore it can fall apart at any time.

By the way, let’s say that something similar happened last year on northwest of Greenland. Some scholars have argued that such “ice gifts” will appear here more often. And the reason to that – climate change on the planet, progressive crash on this reason ice cover. Moreover, the danger may not be expressed only in the icebergs themselves, but also because of the occurrence of the tsunami, caused by such changes.

Icebergs Greenland

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