Earthquakes are a key factor which trigger most major submarine landslides.

Submarine landslides can cause major tsunamis, but they are localized.

Submarine landslides can pose a significant hazard when they cause a tsunami.

Scientists suspect that a strong earthquake set off a submarine landslide, which in turn produced the tsunami.

Submarine landslides from Neogene times on have been recorded.

The primary hazards associated with submarine landslides are the direct destruction of infrastructure and tsunami.

For the wave induced by an earthquake or submarine landslide, tsunami is the correct scientific term.

Large waves produced by an earthquake or a submarine landslide can overrun nearby coastal areas in a matter of minutes.

The sediments were deposited as submarine landslides and turbidity currents.

Groundwater seepage and elevated pore water pressure can cause submarine landslides.

The presence of weak geological layers is a factor which contributes to submarine landslides at all scales.

In the 1950s, it was discovered that larger tsunamis than had previously been believed possible could be caused by giant submarine landslides.

The earthquake triggered a coral reef platform collapse and a submarine landslide that caused a tsunami.

"From a societal perspective, we need to evaluate the degree of tsunami hazard that might be posed by a major submarine landslide," the scientists wrote.

Submarine landslides: processes, triggers and hazards prediction.

Sediment transport is controlled by submarine landslides, debris flows, turbidity currents, and contourites.

Submarine landslides are turbidity currents and consist of water saturated sediments flowing downslope.

One example of this was the Hengchun Earthquake and subsequent submarine landslide that occurred on 26 December 2006.

Oversteepening is caused by scouring due to oceanic currents and can result in the triggering of submarine landslides.

Unlike tidal waves, which mainly result from the effects of lunar gravity, tsunamis are caused by earthquakes or submarine landslides.

Large tsunamis of 30 feet or more are caused by volcanoes, earthquakes and submarine landslides, he said, and their deposits have different features.

Submarine landslides are marine landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean.

Submarine landslides take place in a variety of different settings including planes as low as 1 and can cause significant damage to both life and property.

Earthquakes triggered the Grand Banks landslide of 1929, where a 20 km submarine landslide was initiated after an earthquake.

This variation in the development of different submarine landslides is associated with the development of velocity vectors in the displaced mass.