John in Boston
As a resident of the state of Kansas (KCMO metro area), I am deeply concerned about a tsunami washing me away.
We're talking Blue States, right?
If it makes it over the Rockies I deserve to die. I'm gonna worry about that damned volcano up in Yellowstone it's too close for comfort.
Reuters politically correct egalitarianism now even extends to the world's oceans. After all, they don't want to just single out the Indian Ocean. That would be oceanic discrimination.
Man, if you think that's terrifying, you should check out this threat I read about today. It's this thing called "natural causes" and scientists are saying there's a high likelihood it could wipe out most people on earth in the next hundred years. We're all gonna die, I'm telling ya'!!!
"The evacuation will have to be made by foot and right away," said Walsh.
Ummmmm......let's see here: Roads damaged, any bridges in my area? (yes, lots), 30 minutes to save my a$$, now I have to "evacuate by foot" - run my a$$ off.
Yep, I need more options.
LVM
don't forget the south coast, if the gulf has a quake, its drenched.
Simon Day, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Research Geologist from University College, London, now in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of California - Santa Cruz, California: "At some stage in the future, La Palma might do the same. After a series of eruptions in each of which it moves a little bit, it could eventually collapse catastrophically and produce a landslide of a few hundred cubic kilometers, taking away the whole side of the volcano and dumping it into the ocean as a landslide. That's what would then generate the giant tsunami waves.
Cumbre Vieja Volcano Collapse Could Produce Mega-Tsunamis
20 to 55 Yards High On North and South American East Coasts
YOUR COMPUTER MODELING SHOWS THAT THE TSUNAMI COULD BE AS HIGH AS 55 YARDS (165 feet) IN BRAZIL.
You have to remember that the tsunami will be very much larger near the source and will then as it spreads out from a few very large waves into a series of smaller waves, it will diminish in height as it crosses the ocean. Then, of course, as tsunamis do, it will build up again on the other side. But the sorts of heights that the computer model is predicting for the Eastern seaboard in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and for northern Brazil are in that sort of range several tens of meters high as a maximum value.
IF SOMETHING WERE 55 YARDS, WHICH IS OVER 150 FEET, THAT WOULD BE AT LEAST A 15-STORY BUILDING.
Yeah, it's that sort of size. Following events in the Indian Ocean, we'll now have a comparison which is the tsunamis there the La Palma collapse would produce a tsunami at least a few times larger in terms of wave heights than the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was. (Those very high waves) would be very close to source, but what we're talking about is the height of the wave as it reaches the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. So, along a much greater length of seaboard.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEW YORK, BOSTON, WASHINGTON, D. C. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE LARGEST POPULATION CORRIDORS IN THE UNITED STATES.
That's correct. I think one of the lessons from the Indian Ocean tsunami is just how much damage a tsunami can do when it strikes a densely populated coast line and particularly, those cities on the eastern seaboard that face the ocean directly. They would potentially be under very considerable threat from such a wave.
HAS THERE BEEN ANY 15-STORY-HIGH TSUNAMI ON RECORD FROM ANYTHING HAPPENING IN THE CANARY ISLANDS OR THAT AREA IN THE PAST?
Not in human historical record, because the last collapse of this type that occurred in the Canary Islands occurred at least 15,000 years ago, and perhaps much longer than that. But in terms of the geologic record, there have been a number of these volcanic collapses in the Canaries and also into other island groups in the Atlantic, like the Cape Verde Islands which are further south than the Canaries. So, in terms of the geologic record, these things are not unprecedented at all. [snip]
-- from http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=851&category=Science
Just wait until the YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO erupts.
You won't be safe in the interior of the USA either.
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm
It looks like Reuters never got over their disappointment that the world did not end on midnight 2000.
They've predicted 10,000 of the last ten disasters the world has experienced.
The good part is, of course, that if tsunamis hit the baby-killer-blue coast states, they will be able to take comfort in the knowledge that the disasters were caused by W's position on global warming.
Both the east and west coasts are in danger of tsunamis because,,,
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!
This is obviously part of Rove's plan to squelch dissent.
Bush's fault of course.