A recent Master’s thesis has found a Milford Sound tsunami - triggered by a landslide - may leave no survivors, with as many as 3500 dying if the wave hits during the peak of the tourist season.
The new modelling, which builds on more than a decade of research, shows the best chance of survival relies on people running for higher ground before the shaking stops.
The best-case scenario shows 5.2 percent of people would survive the wave, and in this case the tsunami would have to hit at night, during the winter offseason, when only a few hundred people would be in the area.
Edited title to make it sound less like there was just a tsunami and everyone died.
Oh thank god, I seriously misinterpreted that headline.
Wow, title is from the article but now you mention it, it could easily be interpreted as reporting there was a tsunami and everyone is presumed dead… I have edited it to make it sound less like reporting on a disaster.
Serves me right for not reading the news more regularly ha ha.
Haha I think we can blame the poorly worded title.