GEOPHYSICS: Ancient Cataclysm Marred the Med

Science Magazine ^ | 2006-12-08 | Jacopo Pasotti

[xcamel]

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[LasVegasMac]

They have been watching the Weather Channel too much....

IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW!!!

[ASA Vet]

11/28/06 thread

[JohnBovenmyer]

Last year, scientists warned that a massive collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a volcano in the Canary Islands, would trigger a towering tsunami that could pummel coasts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Even though the short term risk is small the potential damages are enough to justify funding a few geologists to properly study this. If the risk seems real they should run computer models on just how big a splash this volcano would produce, then repeat the computer run with all the above sea level material digitally removed. That should shrink the tsunami somewhat and might reduce it a lot. If the risk seems imminent, say in the next 50 years, then why don't we just strip mine the offending mountain part down to sea level. It would take some time and money, but the technology to do it exists and if these catastrophic projections are correct than it should be much cheaper than a natural splash. However if the purely underwater portion of the collapse is enough to cause a catastrophe then our choices are more limited. I doubt current underwater mining technology is adequate to remove the problem. At best we could prophylactically throw W into the volcano as the MSM will blame him anyway for the massive loss of blue voters that follows.

[Lessismore]

Thanks for the link. I searched for "cataclysm" :-(

[ASA Vet]

I searched on "Tsunami" because I'm cursed with one of those type of memories.
It could be worse I guess. I didn't remember the entire thead URL.

[sodpoodle]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751083/posts

could this be related to that?

[xcamel]

already pinged - thanks

[Strategerist]

Last year, scientists warned that a massive collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a volcano in the Canary Islands, would trigger a towering tsunami that could pummel coasts on both sides of the Atlantic. Such a collapse could be 10 times larger than the Etna slide--an "immense geological event," says Pareschi. Forget Atlit-Yam: Such a doomsday wave could overwhelm settlements with familiar names, like New York, Miami, and Lisbon..

It turns out poor quality simulation was done and the size of a possible tsunami from Cumbre Vieja was wildly exaggerated, and it poses little to no danger to the United States. Also there isn't actually the slightest indication it's about to suffer a large slide.

The MSM has been allergic to reporting anything other than the original scare stories, however.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

...This catastrophe happened 8000 years ago... "probably the largest tsunami unleashed in the Mediterranean in the past several millennia," says co-author Maria Pareschi...

Science are good.

[Strategerist]

A lot have carefully studied Cumbre Vieja and many people have roundly debunked the scare stories which fostered a bunch of sensationalistic documentaries - however,

1) while scientific journals have reported on this, the MSM has not

2) a lot of people on the internet got off so much about fantasizing about Cumbre Vieja wiping out the East Coast they don't bother to look at any of the counter-evidence.

http://www.sthjournal.org/media.htm

http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/

[theBuckwheat]

The collapse of Cumbre Vieja and the subsequent tsunami has a far higher propability of coming true than Global Warming does. We would be far better off directing the billions currently being spent to reduce CO2 emissions to doing as you propose, strip mining the sides of that mountain and using the rock to expand the island. The locals would benefit, and think of the all the condos that could be built on the new land.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Thanks for good links. It's nice to know responsible geologists have already done the appropriate work.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping; alas, I'll have to not ping, and just add to the catalog(s). ASAVet posted the link to the original topic here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751074/posts?page=4#4

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Prehistoric forest discovered off Key West -- on sea bed (under 40 feet of water)
Keynews.com West -- on sea b^ | Wed., Nov 13, 2002 | Mandy Bolen
Posted on 11/15/2002 7:34:31 PM EST by jimtorr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/789935/posts

"pine cones, tree branches and charred limbs -- thought to be about 8,400 years old -- were an unexpected and intriguing treasure awaiting archaeologist Corey Malcom, who spent much of the summer underwater in search of the remains of the Henrietta Marie, a British slave ship that sank 35 miles off Key West in 1700."

[COEXERJ145]

But it's more fun to run with the idea that Cumbre Vieja is going to wipe out millions of lives.

After all, is anyone going to tune into the documentary about how an eruption there won't cause a tsunami?

It's no different than the constant scare mongering over Yellowstone.