Tsunami Threat Hangs Over Southern Italy

New Scientist ^

[blam]

Ping.

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[BenLurkin]

a tsunami 5 metres high,

Must have been heck on the ancients. 15 feet of water across the coastal cities would change the social and political character of the region -- I wonder how many nascent civilizations were wiped out before they had a chance to grow and expand.

[massgopguy]

Uh oh, that’s family territory.

[Hoffer Rand]

I grew up near there. AF brat at San Vito Air Station.

[robomatik]

run for the hills! the sky is falling!

[RightWhale]

South Italy is in a bad spot. They have volcanoes, tsunamis, and Turks. Anything could happen.

[Yo-Yo]

Relax. The East Coast of the United States is at more risk thanks to the Canary Islands.

[null and void]

Sucks to be there, though.

The people running for the hills to avoid the sky falling and the tsunami, are met half way by the people running from the hills because the volcano is exploding...

[Strategerist]

Relax. The East Coast of the United States is at more risk thanks to the Canary Islands.

The Canary Island flank collapse scenario threatening the East Coast of the US has been thoroughly debunked by the wider community of tsunami scientists; collapse tsunamis have difficulty propagating long distances.

Much of the original science in that was flawed. Of course, the media never bothered to tell you about the many scientists that debunked the original highly publicized theory.

By any conceivable measure the tsunami threat to Southern Italy and Sicily is orders of magnitude greater than that to the east coast of the US.

[mancini]

South Italy is in a bad spot. They have volcanoes, tsunamis, and Turks. Anything could happen.

And a garbage strike that has achieved crisis level!

[blam]

"Relax. The East Coast of the United States is at more risk thanks to the Canary Islands."

Nah.

La Palma Tsunami (The mega-hyped tidal wave story)

[napscoordinator]

Yieks! My family and I are stationed in Sicily. This does not sound good.

[blam]

Canary Islands Landslides And Mega-Tsunamis: Should We Really Be Frightened?

[blam]

"The people running for the hills to avoid the sky falling and the tsunami, are met half way by the people running from the hills because the volcano is exploding."

Then there's Constantines Meteor.

About the size of a football field: The impact crater left behind

[Yo-Yo]

The paper that started it all:

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf

Like Global Warming, there are experts on both sides.

[Migraine]

Tsunami Threat Hangs Over Southern Italy All Coastal Regions of the World

There. Fixed it.

[Born to Conserve]

So the giant scour marks in Australia that all point right at Hawaii were made by . . .

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam and Pyro7480.

In 1908, a magnitude 7 earthquake created a tsunami that almost destroyed the Italian cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Messina, Bell, Messina! is the heart of it. lf they'd followed my plan, I'd be there by now. I'd cut off the retreat of every [deleted] German on this island. [/patton flashback]