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Posted on 01/08/2005 5:25:54 AM PST by Gengis Khan
Still we can hope that the blue left coast could get wiped.
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Another thing we could do is wrap a huge mesh basket around it, attached to pullies. Then we could chop it off and lower it gently into the ocean with nary a spash.
The coast of Thailand is quite shallow quite a large distance offshore.
The interaction of waves with coastlines is quite a complex matter.
There seem to be a lot of fairly unjustified claims about what "protects" what....people are claiming both that a deep trench protected Diego Garcia from tsunami AND claiming the shallow Continental Shelf of the US would protect the East Coast from Tsunami.
The reality of Diego Garcia is that it was missed by the main part of the wave, which went to the North.
LOL!
Another article that says: "Tsunami made waves in Atlantic"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/984248.cms
Here is the whole article:
Tsunami made waves in Atlantic
[ FRIDAY, JANUARY 07, 2005 11:40:15 PM ]
The tsunami that ravaged countries all around the Indian Ocean also hit the eastern United States, though only the tide gauges noticed.
A tide gauge at Atlantic City recorded the passage of a 'train' of waves, just under nine inches from crest to trough, 32 hours after the earthquake struck off Sumatra's west coast, said Dr Alexander B Rabinovich of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, British Columbia. A gauge at Port Canaveral recorded 13.4-inch waves 24 minutes later.
Dr Rabinovich has been spearheading an international effort to chart the course of the fading ripples from the devastating tsunami set off by the earthquake.
The tsunami was so powerful it swept around the world over the next 36 hours, with its last residual waves perceptibly jostling tide gauges from Russia's remote northeastern Pacific waters to the North Atlantic, scientists said.
NYT News Service
Here's another idea: We could put a bunch of mega-rockets under the south edge of Cumbre Vieja and blast it into an arc that would land it in the middle of the Nort Pole, where it wouldn't do any damage.
Maybe....err...umm....the NUKES might just set off a much larger tidel wave then the one we are trying to prevent.
Thanks for the post. I was going to work out at the gym this morning to get rid of the holiday pounds....but after reading this, I won't have to go.
I love it. "The tsunami is coming!" will be my all around excuse for the New Year!
Another article: "The cause of Tsunami is earth’s melting of permafrost in artic circle due to global warming: Indian Scientists – many more global landslides and earthquakes possible"
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/01-04g-05.asp
The collapse of land when permafrost thaws
Rising temperatures in the Arctic are melting the permafrost, causing it to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. About 14 per cent of the world's carbon is stored in the permafrost of Arctic lands. Permafrost, which is a solid structure of frozen soil and on which can be used to build homes and other buildings, can, with rising temperatures, turn into a soft material causing subsidence and damage to buildings and structures. But worse yet is if, as a positive feedback, it loses its characteristic as a carbon sink and begins leaking carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is a typical effect of global warming.
According to some Indian scientists, the melting of permafrost has far reaching effects on earth’s crust. The tectonic plates are susceptible to forces on different parts of the world including the Artic and Antarctic regions. The new theory says if the crust of the earth is imbalanced due to tremendous effect of global warming and melting of permafrost.
The ice experiences a cyclical ice ages and warm time. We are in the warm cycle. It has been observed, that during the receding ice ages in the past which means natural warming, ocean currents, Artic and Antarctic crusts’ imbalances, the tectonic movements increase. Worse is the fact that the tectonic movements increase in thrust and violent characteristics. It is at this time world experience 9 and above Richter scale earthquakes – many of them all over the world in a short period of time.
According to these scientists we may be experiencing similar phenomenon where all on a sudden tectonic movements devastate the world.
The tsunami that happened was caused by an earthquake along a 600 mile fault line that got displaced. That is not common. It really never happened in recent history of the world.
Interestingly, the Tsunami traveled westwards at 500 miles per hour and did not traverse in the south with that kind of high velocity. According to the scientific analysts, that is another sign that this was caused by melting of permafrost in the Artic.
I saw an interview with McQuire and even he admits that it probably wouldn't happen for another 5 or 10 THOUSAND years.
It if happens at all.
Most 'scientists' are inclined to think that volcanic eruption would only cause the land mass to slide into the ocean and more than likely breakup in the process.
Boy, that is despair, if you don't even want to see if something's on tv. LOL!
Cos It gonna be the TSUNAMI again on TV.
People People, you have to look at the good side...it will take out major population centers of the blue states.
If Ted and Michael Moore did simultaneous canonballs off the highboard at Coney Island would it have the same effect? Would France survive? Can we try it?
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