Freshwater (paleo)tsunamis – a review

Abstract In freshwater systems (rivers and lakes), historical recent tsunamis have been documented their traces found in the geological record, but studies of paleotsunamis (prehistorical tsunamis) such environments are still underrepresented. This contribution reviews paleotsunami with a focus on post ?2011 period uses events to highlight some areas research that received little attention. past decade, number has increased this includes those carried out over settings. However, lacustrine compared marine rare for rivers our knowledge non-existent. Similarly, generated by meteorological disturbances there none counterpart. Thus, within review, cover all different aspects tsunami generation processes systems, we used several examples, although is notable paleotsunamis. review shows future necessary order better understand causes, frequencies hazard potential.