Tsunami Could Hit Here, Geologists Say

The New York Sun ^ | 12/29/04 | JEREMY SMERD

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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.

[G.Mason]

"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.

[vbmoneyspender]

Well if we can develop a very good system we could have several weeks notice hopefully.

by predicting earthquakes?

[ArrogantBustard]

How do you evacuate New York City in a few hours?

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

[PFC]

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.

[ko_kyi]

"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

[ASA Vet]

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.)

[Travis McGee]

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.

[Ditter]

A tsunami in the Gulf of Mexico?

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

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.

[stuartcr]

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.

[bd476]

And the witch winds of November.

[OSHA]

I would leave now and avoid the rush.

[stuartcr]

An act of God, a terrorists dream??

[brewcrew]

I heard tsunamis hate rats.

[t-1000]

"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.

[MetalHeadConservative35]

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)

[t-1000]

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.

[Strategerist]

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.

[stuartcr]

Mistaken waves?

[ASA Vet]

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.