[per loin]

By rough estimate, NY is about twice as far from the Canaries as London. Would London be destroyed in time to give NY lots of warning?

[FormerACLUmember]

By rough estimate, NY is about twice as far from the Canaries as London. Would London be destroyed in time to give NY lots of warning?

Yes and no. A smaller version of the tsunami would reach the UK first. The wave front, as I read it, gets greatly dissipated by the European Coast, the English Channel, the Thames Estuary, etc., so would not be as severe. Also I think the disintigrated flank of the volcano faces the East Coast of the US, so we would bear the full brunt of the mega-tsunami.

[Cronos]

By rough estimate, NY is about twice as far from the Canaries as London.

The difference is that when the wave hits the shore in England -- it will ravage the south-western coast (remember the western most part of Portugal and Spain would protect England to a large extent.

Lisbon may be hit, but if the landslide pushs waves out west from the islands they may not affect Europe too much at all. It would hit the Atlantic islands first.