This is because an earthquake-generated landslide can fall into the sound and turn it into a violent, long-lasting maelstrom of waves up to 17 metres high. This would devastate the shoreline and ...

Fifteen decks above Milford Sound, closer to the mountaintops than the ocean, I abandon my table at the Sunset Bar. Obnoxious winds have rudely swept away my daiquiri; an unforgivable prank of nature.

Our hazard estimate is based on the 16 landslide deposits of more than a million cubic meters that lie on the bed of Milford Sound. All of these must have fallen since the sound became ice-free ...