“experts say” 300 foot tsunamis. And House Atreides says bull crap! By what mechanism would they create them?
uh, I think the “mechanism” is a really big underwater explosion.
but that’s a total guesss
Surf’s Up!
Weirding Module, silly.
And House Harkonnen says,
“Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.”
Back in 1946, the US military conducted some ocean tests, at Bikini Atol. Here's what a 21 KT explosion, set off 90 feet underwater, looked like:
The biggest effect came from all the highly radioactive salt water mist going into the air. Now, visualize a much bigger blast off the West Coast, when prevailing winds would carry the radioactive mist inland, and the jet stream would carry much of it deep into the middle of the US, where it would contaminate huge amounts of farmland.
Perhaps a local wave of a large size are possible. From the explosion in a shallow area.
But the energy to move that much water is reserved for earthquakes and the Lord.
Incompressibility of fluids caused by an instantaneous effect.
Mind you, you’d have to explode a large enough nuke under relatively shallow water. That is, enough that the underwater volume of the “fireball” is fully submerged, but did NOT touch the ocean floor.
Even so, it’s more likely to be 75-100’, and affect a relatively limited area of coast, but certainly enough to do an entire metro area.
Consider “Super Storm Sandy”: 6 inches messed up Manhattan for weeks. . .
I can think of a way. They detonate a nuclear device of enough power along a tectonic fault that it causes a submarine earthquake that releases magnitudes more energy. The quake creates the tsunami.