[Buck W.]

"About 44 acres of coastline collapsed into the ocean this week..."

No big deal. When coastline collapses into the ocean, what are you left with? More coastline.

[Daralundy]

I dunno. How big is the island?

[Rodney King]

No big deal. When coastline collapses into the ocean, what are you left with? More coastline.

Not that I care (I didn't even care about the Tsunami) but it is actually reduced coastline. If you were to picture the island as a circle, a collapse of the coastline could only result in a circle with a smaller circumfernce. Unless somehow the collaps of the coastline left massive fjords like you see in Norway.

[norwaypinesavage]

"When coastline collapses into the ocean, what are you left with? More coastline.

Actually, on an island, if enough coastline falls away, you are left with only ocean.