1. Kealakekua Bay What am I? Alika Submarine Landslide
Kealakekua Bay is located on the West, or ‘Kona’ coast of the big island of Hawaii. Light can’t travel very far through water, so to ‘see’ the bottom, the images here were made using sound, or sonar technology. What do you see in the images?
600m
Deep Seafloor Adjacent
Kealakekua Bay
How deep
am I?
9000m
Alika is among the largest submarine landslides in the world, and would have created a tsunami!
~9000m
~2800m
Seamounts are underwater mountains or volcanoes.
Alika Submarine Landslide
> 13,ooo years old, 4000 km2
Dana Seamount