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 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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have measured an underwater mud avalanche that lasted two days and crossed more than 1,100 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean floor. The sediment avalanche, or turbidity current as ...

By plotting the time and place of each cable break, the oceanographers could estimate closely how fast the turbidity current flowed. On the sloping continental rise (at the foot of the continental ...

The study also challenges traditional models of turbidity current behavior, suggesting that the flows can maintain a consistent speed and duration even as they erode the seabed.