According to the Discovery Channel...they ran a 'disaster' night a few months back that left me popeyed with terror at three am...the US East coast will get theirs when that unstable volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic (sorry, can't recall name of island), splits in half and falls into the sea. A tsumami will race west and hit the US in eight hours. Death toll in millions. This is if that asteroid with our number on is hasn't struck first.
don't expect eight hours.
I thought the East Coast "gets theirs" when a huge chunk of the continental shelf landslides into deeper water?
A number of tsunami experts have weighed in on that with papers showing that the size of the wave from that Canary Island collapse would be much smaller than originally claimed and not cause a tsunami on the East Coast of the US.
They're pretty upset that the Discovery and Science Channel types doing documentaries are completely ignoring their perspective; of course, they're perspective isn't very exciting or scary, so that's why its ignored.