Freak Waves Flood Homes In Marshall Islands
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published November 29, 2019 | 08:40 AM
Majuro, Marshall Islands, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 29th Nov, 2019 ) :More than 200 people have been forced to flee their homes, after they were inundated by freak waves in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro.
Swells averaging five metres (16 feet) washed rocks and debris onto roads, temporarily cutting access to the international airport at the peak of the flooding on Wednesday.
The Red Cross set up evacuation centres at two schools, with local churches and Majuro's mosque also offering help to fleeing residents.
The Marshall Islands are one of the Pacific nations on the front line of climate change, causing increasingly intense weather phenomena and storm surges linked to rising seas.
Climate researcher Murray Ford said such factors may have played a role in this week's flooding but were not the main cause.
"The key driver of this current inundation appears to be a large swell which has arrived from a more northerly direction than the typical trade wind swell," he said.
"This particular event would be best described as a large swell, meeting a high, but not unusually high tide."Disaster response officials were expected to complete a damage assessment on Friday.
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