[JoeProBono]

Such a wave today would flood Wall Street and the Long Island Expressway

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[rdl6989]

ping.

[MediaMole]

A wave like that wouldn’t do the subway much good, either.

[Big_Monkey]

"Such a wave today would flood Wall Street and the Long Island Expressway

Yes, but would it take the NYT's building and it's staff out to sea? That's really all I care about.

[Mr Rogers]

“Dr Goodbred imagines that the New York wave was on the Grand Banks scale - three to four metres high and big enough to leap over the barrier islands...”

10-12 feet high? I’m underwhelmed.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

There is also supposed to be another one again in the future if the side of a mountain [ Mount Vesuvius I think ] in Europe collapses into the ocean waters.

[machogirl]

what did modern man do to cause this?

[mysterio]

In 4 billion years, there were probably more natural disasters than we could imagine. And some were probably horrifying enough that we wouldn’t want to imagine them.

[SunkenCiv]

Unusual layers in sediment cores may be a sign of an ancient tsunami

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[wolfcreek]

“a rare Atlantic Ocean tsunami”

Luv it when they say, “Rare”” WTF is *rare* in geologic time?

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from May 2009. Re-ping. Probably unrelated, but date is close (or identical?).

Romans and Barbarians
by Derek Williams

In fact the German heartland appears to have lain in the southern Baltic and north coastal areas of today's Germany. However, in the late 2nd century BC the Germans began to move southwards into the Rhineland and Belgium, setting in motion events which would shake Roman confidence and fuel her longstanding fear of the morthern peoples. Two tribes migrated from Jutland, 'driven from their lands by a great flood-tide.'(p 70)[footnote: Strabo, Geography, 7.2.1]

Geography, 7.2.1
by Strabo

II. As for the Cimbri, some things that are told about them are incorrect and others are extremely improbable. For instance, one could not accept such a reason for their having become a wandering and piratical folk as this--that while they were dwelling on a Peninsula they were driven out of their habitations by a great flood-tide; for in fact they still hold the country which they held in earlier times; and they sent as a present to Augustus the most sacred kettle in their country, with a plea for his friendship and for an amnesty of their earlier offences, and when their petition was granted they set sail for home; and it is ridiculous to suppose that they departed from their homes because they were incensed on account of a phenomenon that is natural and eternal, occurring twice every day. And the assertion that an excessive flood-tide once occurred looks like a fabrication, for when the ocean is affected in this way it is subject to increases and diminutions, but these are regulated and periodical.