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Ocean avalanches

AVALANCHES ARE TERRIFYING things: they career down snow-covered mountains, smashing everything in their paths.

In 1929, an ‘avalanche’ shifted more than twice the volume of Mt Everest – but nobody saw it! Why? Because it was entirely underwater. When there’s no

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