{"id":26373,"date":"2020-12-05T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/probable-que-titanic-se-hundiera-al-chocar-iceberg-desprendido-glaciar-rapido-45-metros-dia"},"modified":"2020-12-05T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:53:11","slug":"es-probable-que-el-titanic-se-hundiera-al-chocar-con-un-iceberg-desprendido-del-glaciar-mas-rapido-45-metros-por-dia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/es-probable-que-el-titanic-se-hundiera-al-chocar-con-un-iceberg-desprendido-del-glaciar-mas-rapido-45-metros-por-dia\/","title":{"rendered":"It is likely that the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg that broke off from the fastest glacier: 45 meters per day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/140b86\/800px-greenland_ilulissat-20\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Es probable que el Titanic se hundiera al chocar con un iceberg desprendido del glaciar m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido: 45 metros por d\u00eda\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>He <strong>Jackobshavn Isbrae glacier<\/strong> It reached a speed of 45 meters per day, as recorded in August 2004. Thus, it is the glacier that has moved at the fastest speed, as far as we know.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>The speed was attributed to an influx of warm seawater into Disko Bay, on the west coast of Goenland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Titanic and the iceberg the size of Belgium<\/h2>\n<p>Since then, the glacier has slowed considerably, especially after a very cold period in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" 106950257 Jakobshavn Glacier\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/1f54fa\/_106950257_jakobshavn_glacier\/450_1000.jpg\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The curious thing is that it is very likely that the Titanic sank when it collided with an iceberg that broke off from this glacier that holds the speed record. <strong>It&#039;s not strange something like that<\/strong>: The Jakobshavn Glacier drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces about 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Approximately 35 billion tons of icebergs break off from the fjord each year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7bPW77ylHWE\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still, it was not the largest iceberg ever documented that stood in the path of the largest ship. That title is held by another: on November 12, 1956, the crew of the USS Glacier sighted a tabular iceberg with an estimated area of more than 31,000 square kilometers, that is, <strong>more than the surface of Belgium.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>The iceberg measured 335 kilometers long and 97 kilometers wide. They spotted it west of Scott Island, in the Antarctic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><script>\n (function() {\n  window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {};\n  var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];\n  if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) {\n   var instagramScript = document.createElement('script');\n   instagramScript.src = 'https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js';\n   instagramScript.async = true;\n   instagramScript.defer = true;\n   headElement.appendChild(instagramScript);\n  }\n })();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/probable-que-titanic-se-hundiera-al-chocar-iceberg-desprendido-glaciar-rapido-45-metros-dia?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> It is likely that the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg that broke off from the fastest glacier: 45 meters per day <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/kajtFxm-Qvw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/140b86\/800px-greenland_ilulissat-20\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Es probable que el Titanic se hundiera al chocar con un iceberg desprendido del glaciar m\u00e1s r\u00e1pido: 45 metros por d\u00eda\"><\/p>\n<p>He <strong>Jackobshavn Isbrae glacier<\/strong> It reached a speed of 45 meters per day, as recorded in August 2004. Thus, it is the glacier that has moved at the fastest speed, as far as we know.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>The speed was attributed to an influx of warm seawater into Disko Bay, on the west coast of Goenland.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Titanic and the iceberg the size of Belgium<\/h2>\n<p>Since then, the glacier has slowed considerably, especially after a very cold period in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" 106950257 Jakobshavn Glacier\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/1f54fa\/_106950257_jakobshavn_glacier\/450_1000.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The curious thing is that it is very likely that the Titanic sank when it collided with an iceberg that broke off from this glacier that holds the speed record. <strong>It&#039;s not strange something like that<\/strong>: The Jakobshavn Glacier drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces about 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Approximately 35 billion tons of icebergs break off from the fjord each year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still, it was not the largest iceberg ever documented that stood in the path of the largest ship. That title is held by another: on November 12, 1956, the crew of the USS Glacier sighted a tabular iceberg with an estimated area of more than 31,000 square kilometers, that is, <strong>more than the surface of Belgium.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<p>The iceberg measured 335 kilometers long and 97 kilometers wide. They spotted it west of Scott Island, in the Antarctic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/geologia\/probable-que-titanic-se-hundiera-al-chocar-iceberg-desprendido-glaciar-rapido-45-metros-dia?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> It is likely that the Titanic sank after colliding with an iceberg that broke off from the fastest glacier: 45 meters per day <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=05_Dec_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/kajtFxm-Qvw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26721,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}