James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger? 
Auric Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond....I expect you to die."
Posted on 03/21/2017 10:21:53 AM PDT by mware
In the LANTEX17 exercise, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in the eastern Atlantic is simulated. Located approximately 345 miles west southwest from Lisbon, Portugal and 510 miles west of the Straits of Gibraltar at 36.0ºN, 15.0ºW, the quake sends a tsunami towards the North American east coast.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) are providing the framework for the LANTEX17 tsunami exercise, which is being conducted to assist tsunami preparedness efforts throughout the Atlantic region. Recent earthquakes and their associated tsunamis, such as those in Samoa (2009), Haiti (2010), Chile(2010, 2015), and Japan (2011) attest to the importance of proper planning for tsunami response.
(Excerpt) Read more at weatherboy.com ...
Hank was right! Tip over and capsize!
Mar 11, 2011 - Click to read historic 1964 coverage Above is video of Crescent City, Ca., after it was hit hard by a tsunami after an 8.8 earthquake in Alaska.
Tsunami: 1964 video of deadly tidal wave washing into Crescent City ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AFnbkLmiI
A meteor hit on any of those cities is probably more likely.
That prep would be fun to watch—like the nuclear war preps from the 1950s—duck and cover. :-)
Tsunami = Rum I’d say.
“I saw a documentary a few years ago that claimed that some small island in the eastern Atlantic (somehere west of Portugal IIRC)——”
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It is in The Canary Islands,Spanish territory,off of the coast of Africa-——I forget which island.
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James Bond: "Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?
Auric Goldfinger: "No, Mr. Bond....I expect you to die."
La Palma Island
Thanks !
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Tsunami Recipe
1 oz Captain Morgan® Original spiced rum
1/2 oz Malibu® coconut rum
1/2 oz Myer’s® dark rum
fill with pineapple juice
grenadine syrup
Fill glass with ice, add Capt. Morgan and malibu. Fill with the pineapple juice. Float 1/2 oz of grenadine and then add 1/2 oz of a dark rum (meyers) for color. Found this to a very popular drink at my bar.
Read more: Tsunami recipe http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink2515.html#ixzz4c0ENVQuN
Buffalo Bills fans have something to look forward to...
What a complete waste of time.
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