Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive tsunami that slammed into the North Island’s west coast some 600 years ago, raising intriguing questions.
If historical sources are to be believed, at least three islands in the Cook Islands have vanished into thin air. One of these, Tuanaki, is said to have submerged with all its occupants, as recently as 1842. By Rod Dixon.
According to LiveScience, archeologists have discovered evidence of the greatest earthquake in human history, which generated a 5000-mile-long megatsunami that wreaked havoc on coasts for millennia.