Sentences with phrase «second nearby glacier»

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Rapid melting of Greenland's glaciers has also produced a special category of earthquake known as a glacialquake.15, 8 Helheim glacier triggered nearly 20 percent of the 136 glacialquakes recorded from January 1993 to October 2005 in Greenland — second only to the nearby Kangerdlugssuaq glacier.15 (See Kangerdlugssuaq hotspot for more information about glacialquakes.)