[algore]

Article is worth reading as are some of the links,

It's hard to overstate the importance of the global submarine cable network.

More than 99% of all data traffic between continents goes through these connections, including daily money transfers to the value of trillions of dollars.

[mylife]

submarine telecommunications cables? wtf’s dat?

[enumerated]

I don’t read metric stories

[DesertRhino]

I keep hoping for that landslide in the Canary Islands to let go. I’d die laughing at an 80 foot tsunami flushing the DC toilet.

[EvilCapitalist]

So a Nigerian prince might not get his money for a few days?

[House Atreides]

“More than 99% of all data traffic between continents goes through these connections, including daily money transfers to the value of trillions of dollars.”
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Give Elon Musk enough time and he could make a significant dent in that percentage.

[lee martell]

Can you imagine the underwater vibrations and that ROAR coming from the avalanche? Jacques Cousteau would have had a field day.

The underwater animals, they were all a-scattering if not trapped.
Maybe this is how it is when Tectonic Plates shift to and fro before earthquakes, before tsunamis.

[Paladin2]

BiXiden’s fault.

[coloradan]

Good thing it took two days instead of 10 mins ... would have spawned the mother of all tsunamis had it been the latter.

[corkoman]

And this rascal was observed swimming away from the shelf:

[Steve Van Doorn]

This helps support my understanding of large earth moving changes takes place over a very short period of time
here is the white paper
Novel sensor array helps to understand submarine cable faults off West Africa
https://eartharxiv.org/repository/object/2405/download/4993/

[Pollard]

The event would have gone unrecorded were it not for the fact that the slide broke two submarine telecommunications cables, slowing the internet and other data traffic between Nigeria and South Africa in the process.

Musk is a very smart guy with his Starlink project.

[Fireone]

That’s nothing, wait til you see the carnage after Guam tips over!

[Sequoyah101]

Fascinating. It is the turbidite flow we look for in oil and gas.

[minnesota_bound]

In the video they are laying a pipeline thru a area that had a huge landslide back in the last ice age.

Constructing The World’s Longest Subsea Pipeline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LbbNP58nk

Ormen Lange (gas field)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormen_Lange_(gas_field)

BTW if you click on the Subscribe button and then add the Youtube app to your ROKU box you can watch all these great videos on your tv set. I watch more and more video from Youtube then any regular tv station now.