But the bad news is, so would Rush Limbaugh.
As for the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma (different island) collapse and mega-tsunami, my limited understanding is that it would be a six-sigma event -- not awfully likely.
Posted on 10/01/2011 7:15:02 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
09/29/2011
She's Gonna Blow
Canary Island Evacuated Amid Volcano Fears
Natural DisastersRSS
09/29/2011
She's Gonna Blow Canary Island Evacuated Amid Volcano Fears Photo Gallery: El Hierro Rumbles Photos DPA
Worries of a potential volcanic eruption have prompted Spanish authorities to evacuate residents and tourists on one of the Canary Islands. Thousands of tiny tremors have recently intensified, with the biggest one reaching a magnitude of 3.4, they said. The seismic activity indicates magma on the move. Info
Thousands of tiny earthquakes have rattled the island of El Hierro since this July. But recently the tremors have grown stronger, prompting concern from officials, who fear that a volcano on El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands, could be about to erupt.
On Wednesday, more than 50 residents and tourists staying at the base of the volcano were evacuated, and 11,000 locals nearby were advised to stock up on water, medicine and flashlights in case of an emergency.
Some 8,000 tremors have been registered on the island since July 19, according to the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN). Though most of the quakes occurred at sea and were too minor to be felt, they have been increasing in intensity, with one reaching a magnitude of 3.4 on the Richter scale early on Wednesday morning.
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But the bad news is, so would Rush Limbaugh.
As for the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma (different island) collapse and mega-tsunami, my limited understanding is that it would be a six-sigma event -- not awfully likely.
Rush could leave before the wave got there...the district..? Atlantis.
Might not be a terrible idea, for any sea level east coast FReepers to keep at least enough gas in their car to get a hundred miles away from the coast on short notice, when everyone else is also trying to do the same.
Heck even a bicycle perhaps too. Just in case roads get blocked with traffic.
A bike can get quite a ways in 8 hours.
Spain gets a 33 foot wave while eastern United States gets a 200 foot wave. Seems counter intuitive to me.
Spain gets a 33 foot wave while eastern United States gets a 200 foot wave. Seems counter intuitive to me.
Who would welcome a bunch of "homeless" Congress critters? Oh the horror of having to reside in "fly-over" country with the riff-raff.
I read this morning that the earthquakes are still quite deep (19 to 14km) and not yet moving upward. The lack of movement is a good thing but could change, of course, particularly with the frequency this volcano is showing. Thanks for the update.
Another option...
Use this time, to think for a moment if you live in a lower elevation on the east coast - your most direct route to high ground.
Factor in, you’ll have 8 hours advance notice. Easy walk 3 miles an hour, that’s 20 miles in a pinch.
Most people could simply walk to safe ground, as long as they know ahead of time the nearest route uphill.
San Fransisco? They'd fit right in.
The reasoning is that the predicted land slide points directly at the US, Spain is way off to one side.
The mean elevation of Florida is only 100 feet.The highest point is Britton Hills at 345 feet.I don’t know if a 160 fot wave would make it across either,let’s hope we don’t get to find out.
I think that one is an island called Las Palmas, but I could be mistaken. They predict a 100+ meter tsunami, with about an 8 hour warning time for those who hear about it right away.
Chorus:
Now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Let me say now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Ground she’s movin’ under me
Tidal waves out on the sea
Sulphur smoke up in the sky
Pretty soon we learn to fly
Chorus:
Let me hear ya now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Now my girl quickly say to me
Mon you better watch your feet
Lava come down soft and hot
You better lava me now or lava me not
Chorus:
Let me say now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
— Spoken: “Mr Atley...”
No time to count what I’m worth
‘Cause I just left the planet earth
Where I go I hope there’s rum
Not to worry mon soon come
Chorus:
Now I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
One more now I don’t know (ah he don’t know)
I don’t know (he don’t know)
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
But I don’t want to land on no Kuiat City
I’d rather land in Mexico
Don’t want to land on no Three Mile Island
Don’t want to see my skin aglow (no no no)
Don’t want to land upside down in Nantuket
Or in no Nugrill Bay
Don’t want to land in no San Juan airport
where 5 miutes feels like a day
I’d rather be in New York City 23rd street on my way
Don’t want to land on Mullah Omar
that is all I want to say
Chorus:
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
Chorus:
Just a one more, I don’t know (he don’t know)
I don’t know (I don’t know, man)
I don’t know where I’m a gonna go
When the volcano blow
The remaining part of La Palma will block some of the wave, limiting the effect on Europe. The wave has a free run across the Atlantic on the other side.
THX THX.
Boy, talk about your canary in your mine....
The big landslike tsunamis in Alaska occured where the wave energy was channeled and focused inide of bays and straits.
In the wide open Atlantic, the energy from a landslide-created tsunami would spread out in 360*, rapidly dissipating its energy.
A single-point event like even a giant landslide would NOT be like the Indian Ocean Christmas tsunami, where the earthquake took place over 100s of miles, pushing up a huge linear tsunami. In that situation, the energy can’t dissipate in 360*, because the long wave reinforces itself or “holds itself up” across its length.
Anybody who conflates the Christmas earthquake tsunami with a single-point landslide tsunami is ignorant of the physics involved.
Here is my problem. If I have a wave 200 feet tall starting out a one mile radius, it has a circumference of 6.28 miles. After it has crossed the ocean and has a radius of 3000 miles and a circumference of 18,850 miles, this 200 foot tall wave has increased in volume by a factor (and kinetic energy) of 3000 times. This wave has kinetic energy equivalent to 1/2mv^2. Where did all this kinetic energy gain come from during the transit across the ocean?
Anybody in Florida might do better to get to the roof of a sturdily-built apartment building than try to get to anything that looks like "high ground" in Florida, when everybody else is trying the same. A quick look at Google Earth shows that almost all of the Florida peninsula is under 100 feet in elevation, with at least half of Florida seeming to be under 50 feet.
General evacuation tip: Have a good state-level map in your car, along with a GPS, and avoid highways at all costs. As Katrina showed, highways quickly turn into slow-moving parking lots. If there's a street route to where you're going, use streets and minor roads rather than highways.
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