DELCORE'S OCEAN LANDSLIDES

== Science of the Region ==
The islands that form Santasia look pretty different than the rest of the islands in the region. Why is that? They are long and slender. Two massive forces are to credit. Delcore's Ocean used to actually be land! Ice flows many millions of years ago first carved the ocean basin as it eroded and pushed the landscape away. Bundumbouge and Louisiana are hilly terrain states that are not due to volcanos. They are what's left of a giant moraine, which marks the point where the ice stopped. All the debris and land slid away ended up here; pushed into huge mounds. After the ice age, all that ice melted and formed an ocean. Like an enormous dam break, the ocean waters broke through the weakest section of moraine and caused a huge tidal wave to blow down the river. Historics call the historic river, the Vaquwia River. The Vaqwuia Sea, Vaqwuia Strait and Gulf of Ahmad are essentially what the land looked like after the end of the ice age. You can find the same moraine pattern in Atticaiyulo and the Remus Penninsula, signaling another ice age happened in the area. When it was land, the Delcore's Ocean and present basin was below sea level, therefore never drained. The surrounding land would've been mountains. 
The Santanasia sea cliffs mark the location of giant mountains that were destroyed when creating the basin. Most of the rocks were pushed into Vaqwuia, creating the giant hilly landmass. The history of ice flows here and the rush of water carved out sea caves under the islands. 
About 300k years ago, a mega landslide like no other took place. A giant block of land at least the size of Japan broke off from Santanasia, creating the sea cliffs. This created a huge earthquake, at least a magnitude 13. A tsunami as high as medium sized office buildings roared through the basin. Much of the coastline was swamped with water for months. Water eventually receded to their current levels. 
=== Regularity- ===
Minor land failures have happened here since, but not often. Often only boulders or slender blocks of land break off, but not large enough to trigger massive tsunamis.
== 2024 Mega Landslide ==
On January 25th, a large block of land collapsed and fell into the ocean. On January 28th, an entire sea cliff collapsed. This caused a historic sized earthquake. Up to about magnitude 10-11. The Jan 25th EQ was significantly smaller, at about magnitude 5. A still large earthquake, it did considerable damage. A large tsunami wave was generated. Much of the region saw the giant wave within an hour, and most were able to get out of harm's way. As the precursor, much of the area had been evacuated before the big one hit. On the 28th, the big one caused the most damage, but little fatalities, as many had heeded the warnings about potentially more failures. The US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan, and South Korea opened up their borders to DKU, USMR, Newkeloupi, Galque, and Vaqwuian Citizens fleeing the disaster. The overwhelming majority went to Brazil, where they are likely to stay into February. Residents will be able to return home when the ground stabilizes. DKU National Guard will use research ships with Sonar after the water dies down. They will do research into the collapse and study the new landscape. The collapsed land was uninhabited preservation site. 
A 3rd small landslide occurred 5pm on the evening of Jan 28th but was too small to create a tsunami. 
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