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What Would Happen If A Giant Tsunami Hit Florida?
Freedom Outpost ^ | March 29, 2014 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 03/29/2014 5:56:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Can you imagine the devastation that would be caused if a massive wall of water several hundred feet high slammed into Florida at more than 100 miles an hour? To many people such a scenario is impossible, but that is what people living along the Indian Ocean thought before the 2004 tsunami and that is what people living in Japan thought before the 2011 tsunami. Throughout history, giant tsunamis have been relatively rare events, but they do happen. Scientists tell us that a mega-tsunami can race across the open ocean at up to 500 miles an hour, and when they reach shore they can produce waves that are hundreds of feet high. And even though authorities claim that the threat to Florida is “remote”, it might surprise you to learn that there are “Tsunami Hazard Zone” signs on Florida beaches. If a highly unusual event (such as a giant meteor hitting the Atlantic Ocean) caused a giant tsunami that hit Florida, the devastation would be absolutely unimaginable.

Most people don’t realize this, but almost the entire bottom half of Florida is just barely above sea level. If a giant tsunami did hit Florida, there would be nothing to stop it from sweeping across the entire state…

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: afireinthesky; armageddon; asteroids; bahamas; canaryislands; catastrophism; cumbrevieja; deepimpact; earthquake; florida; godsgravesglyphs; lapalma; lucifershammer; meteor; meteors; shivadescending; tsunami; tsunamis; volcano
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Women and minorities would be hardest hit.


61 posted on 03/29/2014 6:41:40 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Popman

I have friends down south who had looters during the 2004 storms. The looters were there before the wind even died down. One group went out into the middle of a muddy field to steal a damaged john boat that had been blown 1/3 mile by the wind.


62 posted on 03/29/2014 6:43:34 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Some disasters are beyond prepping. Ya just have to pray they never come your way.


63 posted on 03/29/2014 6:44:47 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, we wouldn’t need to clean up Florida anyhow. The wave would do that. These articles are fun like ghost stories. Scare the folks without any consequences. Yellowstone could blow and kill most of us. A big landslide into the ocean could wipe out the east coast. A monster 9.1 earthquake could wipe out the Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, Alaska and BC coastal areas abd cities. A new Chicxulub asteroid could wipe out 90% of life on earth. A Siberian Trapps style volcano could fry us all after it freezes us all (is that possible?).

All those things are likely to happen in the next several million years, some sooner than others. Perfect security isn’t in the cards IMHO.


64 posted on 03/29/2014 6:45:55 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

South Florida is protected from such scenario by the Bahamas and Cuba.


65 posted on 03/29/2014 6:49:15 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Ray76

See my post 56.


66 posted on 03/29/2014 6:54:24 PM PDT by Valpal1 (If the police can t solve a problem with violence, they ll find a way to fix it with brute force)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Looking on the bright side, a lot of valuable Florida beachfront real estate will be cleared and available for purchase and redevelopment.


67 posted on 03/29/2014 7:00:29 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks Tolerance Sucks Rocks. The risk would be more serious if there were more quakes, as there are in the Pacific. The sea shallows up east and south of Florida, and as one risk that has been identified is the collapse into the sea of one of the Canary Islands, any tsunami would be reduced in power before it hit eastern Florida.

68 posted on 03/29/2014 7:01:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: dirtboy

Only thing worse;

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69 posted on 03/29/2014 7:01:45 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’ve no background in this sort of thing but don’t you need a certain time of topography for the water to encounter as it reaches the shore? It has to draw water from the land and build itself on top of the water that is drawn out? Also, I think, it’s impossible for water to climb that high. It just doesn’t seem possible to have a wall of water that high in the middle of the ocean.


70 posted on 03/29/2014 7:11:39 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: InvisibleChurch
<>I’ve no background in this sort of thing but don’t you need a certain time of topography for the water to encounter as it reaches the shore? I

Yes. The famous Maverick's surf spot off of Half Moon Bay, Ca gets its enormous waves from a deep offshore trench. When the waves make landfall, all that big water has to go somewhere -- and that somewhere is UP.

71 posted on 03/29/2014 7:15:58 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, there was a rogue wave Thursday in Panama City Beach, FL. It crossed the wide beaches and water went inside some hotels/businesses along the Gulf of Mexico.

I had a video of it but deleted it....sorry...


72 posted on 03/29/2014 7:16:17 PM PDT by jch10 (Election Day, 2014. May be the most important day since Bunker Hill.)
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To: arthurus

You mean like Howey-In-The-Hills, in Lake County?


73 posted on 03/29/2014 7:17:42 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Guess that would change Florida’s electoral votes.


74 posted on 03/29/2014 7:18:34 PM PDT by upchuck (South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House!!!)
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To: jch10

How many drunk Spring breakers did it get?


75 posted on 03/29/2014 7:26:30 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

several hundred feet tall? where did that hit recently?

as for what would happen... about as much of a problem as if it washdc or nyc


76 posted on 03/29/2014 7:52:55 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: driftdiver

Google La Palma Canary Islands....


77 posted on 03/29/2014 8:07:30 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Valpal1

“Height of tsunami” information is very misleading.

The height reached is largely a consequence of conformation of the land off and onshore at a specific point where it comes ashore.

132.5 feet is the very highest point reached by it at the point where the land’s shape was most conducive. Nothing at all to do with the average or general height.


78 posted on 03/29/2014 8:25:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Paladin2

That would be Space Mountain at Disney World.


79 posted on 03/29/2014 8:30:19 PM PDT by ShasheMac (Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10)
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To: Valpal1

There is a difference in the height of the water as it comes ashore versus the runup height - the height the water reaches as more and more gets piled up on shore and fights for a place to go. That article you linked to says the Indonesia tsunami “reached a height of 108 feet” - but there wasn’t a 108 foot tall wall of water coming ashore.


80 posted on 03/29/2014 8:30:40 PM PDT by Ray76 (Profit from the mistakes of others, you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself.)
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