La Palma is currently the most volcanically active island in the Canary Islands Archipelago. It is likely that several eruptions would be required before failure would occur on Cumbre Vieja. However, the western half of the volcano has an approximate volume of 500 km3 (5 x 1011 m3) and an estimated mass of 1.5 x 1015 kg. If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) at the island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later.
There is, I believe a fissure (crack) that is on the western side of the volcano that could lead to that catastrophic slide.
Most know of the San Andreas Fault in CA—but few could even find the Canary Islands (off the coast of NW Africa). This has been a real possibility for decades.
I have always wondered if someone like A-Jad would send a submarine to this island once he gets a nuclear device. I sure hope we have some naval assets stationed there on a permanent basis.
If we were to follow the foolish "precautionary principle" advocated by proponents of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theories, we would be spending squandering trillions of dollars to evacuate all of the cities on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the US and relocate them inland.
Thank you! You’ve answered all my questions for not having read far enough in the thread. Let that be a lesson to me!!!
likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later, and minutes later slams in to the Allegany Mountains sending spray over the top.