Original upload date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT
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Mike Hall has just published 'The Severn Tsunami of 1607' which looks at the extraordinary event that year when a giant wave came out of 'a clear blue sky' covering the lowlands right along the Welsh
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and Somerset coastlines of the Bristol Channel. Mike explains the various theories and looks at the possible dangers of something similar happening again.
On 30 January 1607 a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side. The wall of water reached as far in land as Bristol and Cardiff. It swept away everything in its path, devastating communities and killing thousands of people in what was Britain's greatest natural disaster. Historian and geographer Mike Hall pieces together the contemporary accounts and the surviving physical evidence to present, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of what actually happened on that fateful day and its consequences. He also examines the possible causes of the disaster: was it just a storm surge or was it, in fact, the only recorded instance of a tsunami in Britain.
http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/general-history-books/the-severn-tsunami-the-story-of-britains-greatest-natural-disaster.html
