They’ve been saying the same thing about Cumbre Vieja - it could wipe out the Eastern seaboard of the USA. Funny thing is, it slipped a few yards in the 1950’s but did not fall into the ocean.
And you can bet Brodhi will be there riding it with Johnny Utah on his tail.
There's science for you ... "huge". Huge like a Stag Beetle? a galaxy? an ocean liner?
To me the relevant parameters are radius and amplitude. As a first guess, we might think that the height, or amplitude, of the wave might be a measure of its energy per unit length, on the basis of gravitational potential energy.
So this will diminish in proportion to the distance from the source. That leaves the question of how to evaluate the amplitude of a point source, which will diminish very quickly with distance. Perhaps there is some effective radius on the order of the width of the wave.
Generously supposing this radius to be 1 km, then we would expect the wave amplitude to be 1/100 the size of the Chrysler building at a distance of 100 km. And so on.
That's still a big wave!
When I lived in CO, the only weatherman we trusted was the one who opened the door to see if it was snowing.
bmp4L8R—like after breakfast and coffee.
Worker ants.
I call Bull Crap on this. Calculate the volume of land that will slide into the water and displace water. It’s not ANYWHERE near the displacement that occurs in major underwater earthquakes. The following linked article...
... explains somewhat the size of displacement that occurs to cause a Tsunami the size of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.
EXTRACT FROM LINKED ARTICLE:
“... Experts calculate the fault—or the boundary between two tectonic plates—in the Japan trench slipped by as much as 164 feet (50 meters). Other similarly large magnitude earthquakes, including the 9.1 Sumatra event in 2004, resulted in a 66-to-82 foot (20-to-25 meter) slip in the fault.
“We’ve never seen 50-meter [slips],” said Kelin Wang, a geophysicist with the Geological Survey of Canada in British Columbia.
The next largest slip would probably be the Chile earthquake in 1960, said Wang, who was not involved in the research. Based on the limited data recorded from that earthquake, the fault slipped by 98 to 131 feet (30 to 40 meters).
Most of the movement occurred horizontally, he explained. But because the plates are wedged together at this trench, that horizontal displacement still managed to thrust up enough seawater to produce the killer tsunami that hit Japan. ...”