Posted on 02/08/2005 8:26:56 PM PST by presidio9
If you listen to the radio and hear that there is an earthquake or a volcano out there, head for high land. Whatever you do, if you are on a beach and the tide goes way out rapidly, do not follow it out!
I was OK until I read your post.
If I see the tsunami, I'm just going to dive in.
Man, if you think that's terrifying, you should check out this threat I read about today. It's this thing called "natural causes" and scientists are saying there's a high likelihood it could wipe out most people on earth in the next hundred years. We're all gonna die, I'm telling ya'!!!
big time body surfing (choose any floating body)
"The evacuation will have to be made by foot and right away," said Walsh.
Ummmmm......let's see here: Roads damaged, any bridges in my area? (yes, lots), 30 minutes to save my a$$, now I have to "evacuate by foot" - run my a$$ off.
Yep, I need more options.
LVM
don't forget the south coast, if the gulf has a quake, its drenched.
Simon Day, Ph.D., Visiting Associate Research Geologist from University College, London, now in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of California - Santa Cruz, California: "At some stage in the future, La Palma might do the same. After a series of eruptions in each of which it moves a little bit, it could eventually collapse catastrophically and produce a landslide of a few hundred cubic kilometers, taking away the whole side of the volcano and dumping it into the ocean as a landslide. That's what would then generate the giant tsunami waves.
Cumbre Vieja Volcano Collapse Could Produce Mega-Tsunamis
20 to 55 Yards High On North and South American East Coasts
YOUR COMPUTER MODELING SHOWS THAT THE TSUNAMI COULD BE AS HIGH AS 55 YARDS (165 feet) IN BRAZIL.
You have to remember that the tsunami will be very much larger near the source and will then as it spreads out from a few very large waves into a series of smaller waves, it will diminish in height as it crosses the ocean. Then, of course, as tsunamis do, it will build up again on the other side. But the sorts of heights that the computer model is predicting for the Eastern seaboard in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and for northern Brazil are in that sort of range several tens of meters high as a maximum value.
IF SOMETHING WERE 55 YARDS, WHICH IS OVER 150 FEET, THAT WOULD BE AT LEAST A 15-STORY BUILDING.
Yeah, it's that sort of size. Following events in the Indian Ocean, we'll now have a comparison which is the tsunamis there the La Palma collapse would produce a tsunami at least a few times larger in terms of wave heights than the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was. (Those very high waves) would be very close to source, but what we're talking about is the height of the wave as it reaches the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. So, along a much greater length of seaboard.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEW YORK, BOSTON, WASHINGTON, D. C. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE OF THE LARGEST POPULATION CORRIDORS IN THE UNITED STATES.
That's correct. I think one of the lessons from the Indian Ocean tsunami is just how much damage a tsunami can do when it strikes a densely populated coast line and particularly, those cities on the eastern seaboard that face the ocean directly. They would potentially be under very considerable threat from such a wave.
HAS THERE BEEN ANY 15-STORY-HIGH TSUNAMI ON RECORD FROM ANYTHING HAPPENING IN THE CANARY ISLANDS OR THAT AREA IN THE PAST?
Not in human historical record, because the last collapse of this type that occurred in the Canary Islands occurred at least 15,000 years ago, and perhaps much longer than that. But in terms of the geologic record, there have been a number of these volcanic collapses in the Canaries and also into other island groups in the Atlantic, like the Cape Verde Islands which are further south than the Canaries. So, in terms of the geologic record, these things are not unprecedented at all. [snip]
-- from http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=851&category=Science
Just wait until the YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO erupts.
You won't be safe in the interior of the USA either.
http://www.earthmountainview.com/yellowstone/yellowstone.htm
Odd that nobody worries about Charleston, South Carolina getting leveled by an earthquake again. Can't remember a thread I've even seen a mention of it. People are too obsessed with Yellowstone, etc.
It just does not happen often enough in your area. Short attention span, etc.
The bad news is that when it does happen - obviously it has, and will again - your area is on a solid plate, as opposed to broken pieces parts out here in the west.
The Charleston quake was felt well up into the NE, Chicago even.
The New Madrid "event" was the 'end of the world', as people then thought. And rightly so. Major tremors for 2 - 3 days, altered the course of the river, wow.
Still visible evidence of that "event" to this day.
Should the same type "event" happen today, the loss of life / destruction would be staggering.
I'm not pretending to be the oracle here, I just look at the USGA quake stuff on a regular basis. Most activity is out here in the west. But if you look back east, there is enough activity to let one know - things are moving.
LVM
Note to self:
Do NOT Start threads like this after 11:00PM Eastern time...
LOL !
Well, I'd rather that God just stuck a crowbar in the Delaware River and pried New Jersey off into the bottom of the Atlantic where it belongs... but if a tsunami is what it'll take, fine, I guess.
Qwinn
If a tsunami actually hits, don't expect the world to help out. For all our charity, the US has only fair weather friends.
It looks like Reuters never got over their disappointment that the world did not end on midnight 2000.
They've predicted 10,000 of the last ten disasters the world has experienced.
The good part is, of course, that if tsunamis hit the baby-killer-blue coast states, they will be able to take comfort in the knowledge that the disasters were caused by W's position on global warming.
Both the east and west coasts are in danger of tsunamis because,,,
IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!!
This is obviously part of Rove's plan to squelch dissent.
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