[Strategerist]

Relax. The East Coast of the United States is at more risk thanks to the Canary Islands.

The Canary Island flank collapse scenario threatening the East Coast of the US has been thoroughly debunked by the wider community of tsunami scientists; collapse tsunamis have difficulty propagating long distances.

Much of the original science in that was flawed. Of course, the media never bothered to tell you about the many scientists that debunked the original highly publicized theory.

By any conceivable measure the tsunami threat to Southern Italy and Sicily is orders of magnitude greater than that to the east coast of the US.

[Yo-Yo]

The paper that started it all:

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf

Like Global Warming, there are experts on both sides.

[Born to Conserve]

So the giant scour marks in Australia that all point right at Hawaii were made by . . .