The largest ice calving event of a glacier caught on tape was the size of Lower Manhattan
A ice calving event means an event where a part of a glacier breaks off. The Jakobshavg Glacier in Greenland experienced a very large calving event which the photographer James Balog caught on tape. The event lasted for 75 minutes and it took out a piece of the glacier the size of Lower Manhattan. The calving face (the height of the ice face) was over 100 m tall. The whole event took 75 minutes. It was the largest ever filmed.
Here's a video of the beginning of the event. You should listen to it with high-quality earphones.
That is quite impressive. Scary how quickly it moved in the last 10 years though.
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The magnitude is so impressive, I really liked the editing work they used at the end to appreciate the movement of this giant, I suppose they were filming the documentary about climate change for global warming, well it's been another 10 years since that filming,will there be a more recent one? it's time to googling.
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Wow how much energy is released. Nature as always surprising the current human eye. Well, since we can record that on video, we can see the intensity of how things happen.
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I saw this video.
It's really dangerous.
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