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Evidence indicates Yucatan Peninsula hit by tsunami 1,500 years ago

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A large,wedge-shaped berm about 15 feet above sea level paved with washing machine-sized stones stretching for more than 125 miles along the coast of Yucatan suggests an ancient massive tsunami around 450 AD, affirms a new study involving Mexico’s Centro Ecological Akumal and the University of Colorado Boulder.  Radiocarbon dates of peat beneath the berm confirm the date. […]

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