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View Resource Potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the US mid-Atalantic coast

This paper from the journal GEOLOGY, "Potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the US mid-Atlantic coast," by Neal W. Driscoll, Jeffrey K. Weissel, and John A. Goff, has made headlines in recent weeks for its claim that the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina "might be in the initial stages of large-scale slope failure." Such...

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1220/ML12205A450.pdf