Giant wave could threaten US
Posted by FormerACLUmember
On News/Activism 08/09/2004 8:34:11 PM PDT · 17 replies · 136+ views
BBC ^ | 10 August 2004
A collapsing volcano in the Atlantic could unleash a giant wave of water that would swamp the Caribbean and much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, a scientist has claimed. Dr Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, UK, believes one flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries archipelago, is unstable and could plunge into the ocean. If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the...
THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT LA PALMA ON THREAT MATRIX FROM ONE OF THE JIHAD MESSAGE BOARDS (BACK IN DECEMBER I THINK). DOES ANYONE REMEMBER?
Hi Selene.
The wave thing has been discussed on various threads.
I'll look around and see what I come up with.
I didn't see any specific FR threads in my search; however
there is enough info presented here for your perusal.
GOOGLE Search Term: "Collapsing Volcano"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Collapsing+Volcano%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
GOOGLE Search Term: "Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Benfield+Greig+Hazard+Research+Centre%22+%0D%0A&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
GOOGLE Search Term: "Dr. Simon Day"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Dr.+Simon+Day%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
The original story is here, and dated
Wednesday, 4 October, 2000, 18:06 GMT 19:06 UK ) 2000
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003tik
Just because it's old doesn't make it irrelevant.