On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Britain’s largest natural disaster, the author of Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard reveals strong new evidence that the Bristol Channel was devastated by a tsunami on January 30, 1607. On that day, historical accounts describe a storm in the Bristol Channel, flooding more then 500 square kilometers of lowland and killing 2,000 people.
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