The authorities have urged residents of the island settlement of Innaarsuit with houses on a promontory to move away from the shore over fears that the iceberg, which was spotted on Thursday, could swamp the area.
“We fear the iceberg could calve and send a flood towards the village,” Lina Davidsen, a security chief at the Greenland police, told Danish news agency Ritzau on Friday.
The settlement in northwestern Greenland has 169 inhabitants, but only those living closest to the iceberg have been evacuated, Ritzau reported.
The incident comes weeks after scientists at New York University shot and released a video of a massive iceberg breaking free from a glacier in eastern Greenland in June.
Last year, four people died and 11 were injured after an earthquake sparked a tsunami off the island settlement of Nuugaatsiaq, sending several houses crashing into the sea.