A 100-meter-high iceberg threatens the Greenland coast

A drifting 100-meter-high iceberg threatens the Greenland coast, leading local authorities Friday to evacuate people living close to the side.

Greenland police have urged residents of the island of Innarsuit whose houses are located on the coast, to move away from it for fear of submersion if the block of ice breaks.

"We fear a calving (separation) of the iceberg, causing a flood in the area, "Lina Davidsen, chief of security for the Greenland police, said on Friday at the Danish agency Ritzau.

The village, located in northwestern Greenland, has 169 inhabitants, but only those living in "The iceberg is still close to the village, the police are currently under discussion to see the sequence of events," said Ritzau.

"The iceberg is still close to the village, the police are currently under discussion to see the next events," said Ritzau. AFP Kunuk Frediksen, one of officers of the Greenland Police.

Susanne K. Elibaden, a city councilor told local Sermitsiaq newspaper, that the village people used to see mbadive icebergs near Innaarsuit.

"But this iceberg is the biggest we have never seen, there are cracks and holes which makes us fear a calving, "she said adding that the village power station and fuel tanks were close to the coast. 19659004] "No one stays unnecessarily near the beach and we told all the children to stay as far as possible", according to the counselor.

The discovery of this huge block of ice comes a few weeks after the broadcast of a video – by scientists from the University of New York – of an iceberg detaching from a glacier, in eastern Greenland.

According to experts, such phenomena will occur more and more often.

"The production of icebergs has increased in Greenland in the last 100 years due to climate change, "William Colgan, researcher at the Danish and Greenland Geological Survey, told AFP.

According to him, the growing number of icebergs" increases tsunami risk. "

In 2017, four people died and eleven were injured as a result of a tsunami near another Greenland village – on the west coast.