{"id":26827,"date":"2026-05-10T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26827"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:11:48","slug":"fjord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fjord\/","title":{"rendered":"Fjord"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Fjord Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A massive 500-meter megatsunami, the second-tallest ever recorded, recently struck Alaska\u2019s Tracy Arm Fjord after a landslide dumped 64 million cubic meters of rock into the water. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Fjord<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fjord is a <\/span><b>long, narrow, deep body of water<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that<\/span><b> stretches far inland from the coast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fjord was<\/span><b> formed when a glacier made a U-shaped valley <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by segregation through several ice ages .\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The valley was then<\/span><b> filled with water from the sea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">once the glaciers melted\u00a0 .\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>opening toward the sea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is called the <\/span><b>mouth <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the fjord, and is<\/span><b> often shallow.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fjords can be <\/span><b>long and quite deep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>often surrounded by high mountains.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically, fjords reach their <\/span><b>greatest depths farther inland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where the force of the glacier that formed them was the most potent.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Many fjords<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are actually <\/span><b>deeper than the sea that feeds into it. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The deepest fjords are up to 6300 feet (nearly 2000 m) deep.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some features of fjords include <\/span><b>coral reefs and rocky islands called skerries.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Epishelf Lakes:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another feature of some fjords is the presence of epishelf lakes. These lakes occur when <\/span><b>melted fresh water becomes trapped under a floating ice shelf.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This freshwater <\/span><b>does not mix with the saltwater below, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but rather <\/span><b>floats on top of it.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fjords are found mainly in <\/span><b>Norway, Chile, New Zealand, Canada, Greenland, and the U.S. state of Alaska.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Sognefjorden<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a<\/span><b> fjord in Norway,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is more than <\/span><b>160 kilometers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (nearly 100 miles) long. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/trending\/massive-500-meter-megatsunami-hits-alaska-fjord-after-part-of-mountain-collapses-1778077436420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>WION<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fjord is a long, narrow, deep body of water that stretches far inland from the coast. 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