Scientists: Volcano Could Swamp U.S. with Mega-Tsunami

China Daily ^ | 3/29/2005 | Staff Writers

[ex-Texan]

Read my post here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373322/posts?page=98#98

An act of God is not really what I had in mind. Why is an Islamic Cleric predicting a mega-tsunami wiping out the East Coast? Can a huge landslide be triggered on the volcano on the Island of La Palma. I dunno. Do you?

I beieve 76834 is onto something. But I do not pretend to be psychic. Just a word of warning to the wise.

[armymarinedad]

Countries all around the Atlantic rim could be hit by killer tsunamis at any time between now and the next 10,000 years, the British government's chief scientific adviser said.[AFP/file

I guess that's a pretty safe time line.

[unkus]

Beam me up, Scotty.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"I read right here on FR that this isn't going to happen."

Hey, if you read it here on FR, then we know it CAN'T happen! :)

[taxesareforever]

If it wasn't for scare mongery there wouldn't be much news. You gotta wonder if these people that say this stuff actually believe it or just like to see their name in print.

[Darksheare]

Well, the Hilna Slump on the big island of the Hawaiian chain would make a tsunami easily twice the size of what's predicted for this island.

[streetpreacher]

"...could be hit by killer tsunamis at any time between now and the next 10,000 years"

That's very specific forecasting, isn't it? Bwah! The killer meteor will hit us before then!

[El Gato]

$300 billion to bulldoze it ought to be enough. Or we could just use the Peaceful Atom to level it.

That would be a typical government program. It would bring on the very thing it's designed to prevent. Although I guess those things would prevent collapse of the volcano, and thus the worst of the tsunami, but they are also bound to set the sucker off.

[ninenot]

I read right here on FR that this isn't going to happen

But what does the Reader's Digest have to say on the matter?

[PeterFinn]

I was kidding.

Unfortunately, you know some schmuck in Congre$$ will come up with a harebrained idea to wa$te our money preventing something that may never happen when we have real problems like China.

[theDentist]

Discovery Channel did a show on this a week or so after the big tsunami over the Christmas holiday. It was interesting the first few times. Only thing I really noted out of it is that such a wave could roll up to 11 miles inland. So my new home is ral close to where it would end. Ocean Front property!

[Strategerist]

This isn't scare mongering. It has been well researched for over 15 years.

The reality is the majority of tsunami scientists disagree with the scenario.

Contrary to the impression given by dramatizations of science, most of the time, lone mavericks in science turn out to be wrong.

At least this article was responsible enough to give the other side. For the 2+ years this story has been overhyped ad nauseam, most articles and documentaries haven't.

[rightgrafix]

Believe or don't believe...if you live on the east coast of America(I do)and you hear on the news that Cumbre Vieja is erupting even the slightest...go west and fast. Don't pack just go west. Even if it's just 30 or 40 miles inland you will be safe.

[PeteB570]

I'm well over 60 + miles depending on the direction it comes from. With global warming I'll be able to sit in a lawn chair and watch for it year round.

Geeeeez, I worry more about the traffic at the mall.

Get a grip all you chicken hearts (not you HarleyD). We all are going to die sometime. How is you choice. I'm not going to do it while sitting in my dark basement shivering in fear.

Pete

[itslex71]

Crapola! We are about to close on an apartment on Shore Road in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Eeegads.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa would also be swamped by giant waves."

But the headline and most of the story focuses on damage to the USA; wishful thinking by the authors?

[BlueNgold]

Art Bell says what??

A wall of water up to 55 yards high crashing into the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, flattening everything in its path.

Suddenly my move back to CA is looking like a smart one...

[Doe Eyes]

Probably just kill a bunch of Liberals. Who cares?

[psychoknk]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[Skeeve14]

I'm more concerned about the huge fault line that runs the miss. valley. If a earthquake like the one that happened circa 1812 would happen today.... I hope there is someone out there planning for something like that.