Steffen, RebekkaSteffen, HolgerWeiss, RobertLecavalier, Benoit S.Milne, Glenn A.Woodroffe, Sarah A.Bennike, Ole2020-12-102020-12-102020-09-150012-821X116443http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101060Due to their large mass, ice sheets induce significant stresses in the Earth's crust. Stress release during deglaciation can trigger large-magnitude earthquakes, as indicated by surface faults in northern Europe. Although glacially-induced stresses have been analyzed in northern Europe, they have not yet been analyzed for Greenland. We know that the Greenland Ice Sheet experienced a large melting period in the early Holocene, and so here, we analyze glacially-induced stresses during deglaciation for Greenland for the first time. Instability occurs in southern Greenland, where we use a combined analysis of past sea level indicators and a model of glacially-induced fault reactivation to show that deglaciation of the Greenland Ice Sheet may have caused a large magnitude earthquake or a series of smaller magnitude earthquakes around 10,600 years ago offshore south-western Greenland. The earthquake(s) may have shifted relative sea level observations by several meters. If the earthquake-induced stress release was created during a single event, it could have produced a tsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean with runup heights of up to 7.2 m in the British Isles and up to 7.8 m along Canadian coasts. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalglacial isostatic adjustmentrelative sea-level datatsunamiGreenlandglacially-triggered faultingArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.1164435461385-013X