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Tsunami Could Hit Here, Geologists Say
The New York Sun ^ | 12/29/04 | JEREMY SMERD

Posted on 12/30/2004 9:02:59 AM PST by M 91 u2 K

Tsunami Could Hit Here, Geologists Say

BY JEREMY SMERD - Special to the Sun December 29, 2004

Could New York be next?

The earthquake that ravaged coastline communities surrounding the Indian Ocean has reawakened a debate over the possibility that a tsunami could hit New York.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bush; canaryislands; catastrophism; cumbrevieja; earthquake; geology; godsgravesglyphs; lapalma; tidalwave; tsunami; volcano
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To: Northern Yankee
"How do you evacuate New York City in a few hours?"

You're soon going to pay to find out.

As soon as the Committee for Expaining Boll weevil Constipation has issued it's report, that is.

21 posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:05 AM PST by G.Mason (A war mongering, UN hating, military industrial complex loving, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: M 91 u2 K
Well if we can develop a very good system we could have several weeks notice hopefully.

by predicting earthquakes?

22 posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:21 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Northern Yankee
How do you evacuate New York City in a few hours?

You don't. Likewise Boston, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Charleston ...

23 posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:48 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Northern Yankee
How do you evacuate New York City in a few hours?

Vertically. You'd be safe on an upper floor of a well-constructed building as opposed to a basement studio or on the street.

24 posted on 12/30/2004 9:13:52 AM PST by PFC
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To: M 91 u2 K

"Using that analogy, you would need a rupture or some material that is on the order of 1,000 miles to displace that much water to generate enough energy to go across the Atlantic," Ms. Kong said. "A 200-square-mile chunk of land couldn't displace enough water."

That was my first thought when I first heard of the Canary Islands thingy


25 posted on 12/30/2004 9:14:27 AM PST by ko_kyi
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To: stuartcr; rintense
Having a longer shoreline than the entire west coast of the US,
we here in Michigan worry about that everyday,
(unless the lakes are frozen over.)
26 posted on 12/30/2004 9:15:10 AM PST by ASA Vet (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

If our enemies got a nuke, they could leverage its effects a thousand times by putting it on the Las Palmas Cararies volcano, where a chunk the size of Manhattan is perched precariousy.

If a nuke would dislodge it....that's all she wrote folks.


27 posted on 12/30/2004 9:15:32 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: t-1000

A tsunami in the Gulf of Mexico?


28 posted on 12/30/2004 9:15:46 AM PST by Ditter
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To: MetalHeadConservative35
thank god anyone who lives on the great lakes dont have anything to worry about unless your on the water with a boat when a nor-easter hits

The Great Lakes can have their own little Tsunami, they are called Seich's ? I saw one many years ago on lake michigan wash fishermen off of a breakwater.

29 posted on 12/30/2004 9:15:46 AM PST by Vinnie_Vidi_Vici
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To: t-1000

Got that right, besides, a 3 hr warning here in Tidewater VA, would result in more people getting inundated on the roads, than at home.


30 posted on 12/30/2004 9:16:06 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: MetalHeadConservative35

And the witch winds of November.


31 posted on 12/30/2004 9:16:32 AM PST by bd476
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To: Northern Yankee

I would leave now and avoid the rush.


32 posted on 12/30/2004 9:17:18 AM PST by OSHA (My problems are all in your head.)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

An act of God, a terrorists dream??


33 posted on 12/30/2004 9:18:15 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: Joe 6-pack

I heard tsunamis hate rats.


34 posted on 12/30/2004 9:18:26 AM PST by brewcrew
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To: Ditter
"A tsunami in the Gulf of Mexico?"

Yes.
There is evidence that a giant asteroid crash just of the coast of the Yucatan peninsula.
That asteroid would have cause a tsunami with erroneous waves. Possibly hundreds of feet high.
35 posted on 12/30/2004 9:18:49 AM PST by t-1000 (Hecho...Lava Sus Manos?)
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

yea but im 30 miles in land so the only worries i have are tornadoes and planes crashing (i live under a runway lineup area)


36 posted on 12/30/2004 9:20:57 AM PST by MetalHeadConservative35 (Strength Determination Merciless Forever,: The BLS creed,if you dont have family,you have nothing)
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To: stuartcr
The better plan would be to get people on boats and ships.
You have a much better chance of survival in the open sea.
Because the mass of water is not force to break. The closer it gets to land the more critical the wave becomes.
37 posted on 12/30/2004 9:21:24 AM PST by t-1000 (Hecho...Lava Sus Manos?)
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To: Travis McGee
If a nuke would dislodge it....that's all she wrote folks.

Except most tsunami experts have concluded a collapse of that volcano would do nothing to the East Coast of the US.

If they had a nuke I'm certain they wouldn't take the chance of wasting it there.

38 posted on 12/30/2004 9:22:14 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: t-1000

Mistaken waves?


39 posted on 12/30/2004 9:22:38 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

I took a photo of a wave crashing half way up the Muskegon lighthouse. We turned around in the channel and didn't go into the lake that day.


40 posted on 12/30/2004 9:23:02 AM PST by ASA Vet (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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