tsunami

“It was a tsunami,” declares Juan José Montane.

Others fear another Fukushima-scale disaster, where a tsunami disabled three reactors, causing the release of highly radioactive materials and forcing mass evacuations.

“At the same time, colleagues from Denmark, who do a lot of fieldwork in Greenland, received reports of a tsunami that happened in a remote fjord,” explained Dr Hicks.

In politics, as in nature, the largest tsunami generated by an earthquake is often not the first wave but the next one.

It’s not that putting a woman in the Oval Office fixes pervasive gender inequality, starts a tsunami of female achievement, or signals that the feminist movement has finally succeeded.