[FormerACLUmember]

I think I'll retire in the mountains and not the seashore.

[Strategerist]

Scientists predict

A couple do, outnumbered by those who strenuously disagree.

[Truth666]

37° N, 30° W

[b4its2late]

So, since I'm in Upstate NY, near Buffalo, I'll have beach front property?

[farmfriend]

I saw a show on this. Really scary stuff. Like CA's big one it is not a matter of if but of when.

[mlmr]

to the Beeb...you wish!

[MetalHeadConservative35]

i live in the great lakes,so tornadoes are the worst of my worries

[hoosiermama]

HHHmmm a "mega-Tsunami" wipes out the East Coast and the West coast falls into the Pacific with a mega earth quake......That just leaves the "red states"....
Interesting ;^)

[pointsal]

No way...........these are blue areas......no one believes that Mother Nature could ever had little blue babies......

[SittinYonder]

Only read the headline ... is this breaking news? Should I run for high ground?!

[Fitzcarraldo]

I suspect their calculations are off. The volume of displaced water from this landslide in the Canary Islands would be far less that what happened near Sumatra, resulting in a much smaller wave.

[Feiny]

Will it happen before Global Warming destroys us all....or after the impending Ice Age freezes us to death?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"...then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean."

The Bahamas will absorb much of the impact and considerably weaken the wave prior to it hitting SE Florida.

Having said that, I'm glad I moved west and away from the beach.

[joesnuffy]

Retire in the mountains and a volcano will get cha....

[liberallarry]

Don't forget about Godzilla.

[Grut]

My gut feeling, unbuttressed by math, is that there isn't enough energy in even a large mass of falling rock to do more than raise a godawful local 'kerplunk'. Generating an appreciable wave the length of the East Coast involves lifting a huge mass of water to a considerable height. Engineering-Freeper commentary is encouraged.

[GSlob]

Well, if one starts heavy bombing so as to chip and landslide that mountain into the sea little by little, then one could get two birds with a single stone: first, a concentrated energy release in that mega-tsunami will be avoided (to take a dollar in the pennies as it were) and secondly, a good bombing range [instead of Vesques (sp?) island] could be put to good use in training.

[76834]

I think I'll retire in the mountains and not the seashore.

Then the Yellowstone Caldera is liable to get ya......

[DJ Taylor]

As the old saying goes, "Those who really know the ocean will not live anywhere near it."

[Yasotay]

TOBA .... TOBA .... TOBA .... and no I don't mean Animal House .... Is a giant awaking? If so, then you won't be safe in the mountains either. :)

[Slicksadick]

Canary Islands is a mole hill compared to landslides that occur regularly in the Hawaiian islands. Check this map out below, sized in cubic kilometers.