The catastrophic collapse of Fogo volcano on Cape Verde produced a mega-tsunami 800ft high (243m), engulfing the nearby Santiago Island around 78,000 years ago – and scientists have warned a ...

The tsunami generated by Fogo’s collapse apparently ... by no means indicates that another big collapse is imminent in Cape Verde or elsewhere, but notes that “since the possible impacts ...

After part of Cape Verde’s Fogo volcano fell into the sea ... and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami reached about 30 metres. However, the circumstances that create them are much more exceptional ...

Around 73,000 years ago, a massive landslide in West Africa’s Cape Verde islands triggered a giant tsunami. The wave formed off the coast of the volcanic island of Fogo and traveled 34 miles to ...

The mega-tsunami, reported on 2 October in Science ... and a co-author of the Cape Verde study. “Most of these fairly young oceanic volcanoes — such as in the Azores and the Canary Islands ...