| ▲ | raphinou a day ago | |||||||
I would have thought it would generate enormous wave, but that's clearly not the case. I think some of the biggest waves was generated by a mountain sliding or collapsing in the sea. I expected something similar here. Anyone know why not? | ||||||||
| ▲ | GuB-42 a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
It is not a very energetic event for its size. The iceberg is floating, it can't accumulate a lot of potential energy before flipping, so when it happens, there is not enough to make big waves. The center of gravity of the iceberg barely moves. A mountain sliding into the sea is different, these higher up rocks have a lot of potential energy, that convert into kinetic energy as they fall, which is transferred to the water as they splash down, making big waves. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | cucumber3732842 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
The amount of water actually being displaced isn't changing much, it's just kind of rearranging around where is water and where is ice. | ||||||||
| ▲ | javier2 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
i suppose its not actually displacing a lot of water volume, unlike a landslide. | ||||||||
| ▲ | staplers a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
All its mass is already on the water so it's not displacing anything. It probably made some splashes but it seems like a fairly round object rotating rather than smashing into anything | ||||||||
| ▲ | dist-epoch a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Maybe because ice floats, and it's almost the same density as water? | ||||||||