Cool, not dangerous. Just like avalanches, turbidity currents are incredibly fast (up to 60 miles per hour!) and have been known to take out anything that gets in their way. After the Grand Banks ...

The earthquake-triggered turbidity current that occurred offshore of eastern Canada in 1929 is estimated to have been 400 m tall, lasted for at least 12 hours, and traveled hundreds of km into the ...

The turbidity current of 14 January 2020 travelled more than 1,100 km from the Congo River estuary to deep-sea, making it the longest avalanche of sediment ever measured on Earth.

Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06254-6 ...

An international team of researchers reports the detection of the formidable turbidity current, powerful underwater avalanches, that took place across January 14 to 16, 2020.

The highest velocity turbidity-current flow ever measured instrumentally (8.1 meters/second). The first quantitative evidence that during some sediment events, movements in the seafloor propagated ...

By combining in-situ monitoring and direct seabed sampling, the team were able to witness a turbidity current in action, moving a huge plume of sediment at over 2.5 meters per second at over 1.5 ...