The tragic New Zealand earthquake of February 22, which hit Christchurch hard, had an interesting side effect, which was to cause a major calving event off the Tasman glacier. The falling ice caused a 12-foot-high lake tsunami in Lake Tasman, the lake that is at the Tasman Glacier outlet.
Ice chunk breaks off Tasman Glacier
Earthquake causes glacier to calve
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