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There's a humongous boulder on a cliff in Tonga. Now we know how it got there.
A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers ...
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A 164-Foot Tsunami Pushed This Enormous Boulder Atop a Cliff in Tonga 7,000 Years Ago
The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...
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Research Shows Tonga's Maka Lahi Boulder's Journey
New research theorises that Tonga's Maka Lahi boulder was moved more than 200 metres inland by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago. Maka Lahi, meaning "Big Rock", is a limestone boulder measuring 6.7 ...
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Research shows Tonga's Maka Lahi boulder's journey
New research theorises that Tonga's Maka Lahi boulder was moved more than 200 metres inland by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago. Maka Lahi, meaning "Big Rock", is a limestone boulder measuring 6.7 ...
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Research Shows Tonga’s Maka Lahi Boulder’s Journey
The researchers used numerical modelling to establish that wave heights of around 50 metres, and lasting around 90 seconds, would have been needed to dislodge the boulder from its cliff-edge origin.