There's some underwater shelf off the coast of Africa somewhere that's supposed to collapse at some point, leaving NYC in the path of a giant Tsunami. We'd have about three hours. Services would be up until it hit. That's not enough time to go home and get our stuff, but enough time to get a lot of people out to the North and West _if there were a plan._
--ag
Its a Canary Island off of Moroco, Volcanic, waterproof layer in the middle, if they get heavy rains the water table in the ground would rise to this layer and the top would slide into the ocean.
There's some underwater shelf off the coast of Africa somewhere that's supposed to collapse at some point, leaving NYC in the path of a giant Tsunami. We'd have about three hours. Services would be up until it hit. That's not enough time to go home and get our stuff, but enough time to get a lot of people out to the North and West _if there were a plan._
--ag
Its a Canary Island off of Moroco, Volcanic, waterproof layer in the middle, if they get heavy rains the water table in the ground would rise to this layer and the top would slide into the ocean.
Here's a paper about it. Note there's something funny about the numbers in the abstract Author: Ward, Steven N. ; Day, Simon Title: Cumbre Vieja Volcano :Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands Year: URL: http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf Abstract: Geological evidence suggests that during a future eruption, Cumbre Vieja Volcano on the Island of La Palma may experience a catastrophic failure of its west flank, dropping 150 to 500 km3 of rock into the sea. Using a geologically reasonable estimate of landslide motion, we model tsunami waves produced by such a collapse. Waves generated by the run-out of a 500 km3 (150 km3) slide block at 100 m/s could transit the entire Atlantic Basin and arrive on the coasts of the Americas with 10-25 m (3-8 m) height.
John Kane Kingston ON Some 100's of Km inland but sitting beside Lake Ontario
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Here's a paper about it. Note there's something funny about the numbers in the abstract Author: Ward, Steven N. ; Day, Simon Title: Cumbre Vieja Volcano :Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands Year: URL: http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf Abstract: Geological evidence suggests that during a future eruption, Cumbre Vieja Volcano on the Island of La Palma may experience a catastrophic failure of its west flank, dropping 150 to 500 km3 of rock into the sea. Using a geologically reasonable estimate of landslide motion, we model tsunami waves produced by such a collapse. Waves generated by the run-out of a 500 km3 (150 km3) slide block at 100 m/s could transit the entire Atlantic Basin and arrive on the coasts of the Americas with 10-25 m (3-8 m) height.
Assuming the first units are English and the parentheticals are metric:
25 feet? That's it? I live on the 8th floor and work on the 19th. So that's okay then. Call off the evacuation plans. Whew.
