Signs of ancient megatsunami could portend modern hazard

phys.org ^ | 10-02-2015 | Provided by: Columbia University

[Red Badger]

Atlantis?.....................

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!..............

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Mother Earth’s a b!tch, ain’t she?

[ronnietherocket3]

Is there anything I am not supposed to keep myself awake at night stressing out about, sweating uncontrollably, so some group somewhere can study a problem that humans have no control over?

[Slicksadick]

Great article, Thanks for posting it. This slide at 160 square kilometers, is dwarfed by the landslides of Hawaii, largest of which is pegged at 23,000 square kilometers.

http://hilo.hawaii.edu/~kenhon/GEOL205/Landslides2/default.htm

[GraceG]

Liberals like to live on the coasts, Humanity's technology has finally evolved where a lot of infrastructure can easily survive INLAND.

Sounds like if we wait long enough Nature will take out Most the Trash for us.

[Bon mots]

I'm more worried about Cumbre Vieja!

[JimSEA]

This sort of a landslide has doubtless happened fairly often. Just think if Mount St Helens had been an island which experienced a sideways blast. That could have moves a lot of water.

[SunTzuWu]

Mt. St. Helens was a slope collapse. These guys are doing research that has already been done. I remember from more than 20 years ago reading Nat Geo articles that mirror this one. Same islands, same subject, better pictures.

[MUDDOG]

dwarfed anything ever seen by humans

Scared the heck out of the Neanderthals though.

[JoeProBono]

[MUDDOG]

It takes a lot of skill and courage unknown, to catch the last wave and ride it in alone.

[Slicksadick]

Post #5 should read cubic, not square kilometers.

[JimSEA]

We’re certainly not going to control it certainly but we might be able to predict it. The study of landslides is progressing but incomplete. We have learned a lot.

[CommerceComet]

I live in NE Kansas. Tsunamis are not high on my list of concerns.

[richardtavor]

Don’t worry, welcome to the world of Geology. The world was here before man, and will be here after we all leave (at least in some form).

[Raycpa]

I don’t believe an 800 ft high wave of water could last very long before collapsing.

[Beowulf9]

“Is there anything I am not supposed to keep myself awake at night stressing out about, sweating uncontrollably, so some group somewhere can study a problem that humans have no control over?”

Yes. Federal funding given out liberally for stupid science research projects.

[Beowulf9]

Cue the music!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcvo4U33_L4

[ronnietherocket3]

We’re certainly not going to control it certainly but we might be able to predict it.

I am more irritated about the number of hazards and warnings I get told about daily. I went to a college that had lots of safety rules. My company has posters everywhere telling me (a programmer) how I need to worry about safety. My favorite ones are the safety warnings about machining that are randomly put on the accounting floor. It seems that every day a study comes out warning me about yet another hazard.