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  • Millions in U.S. Face Mega-Wave from Island Collapse (don't worry about meteors)

    08/09/2004 10:27:49 AM PDT · by Truth666 · 77 replies · 2,848+ views
    reuters ^ | Mon 9 August, 2004 14:33 | Scientist Bill McGuire, Jeremy Lovell
    The bad news is tens of millions of people along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada may drown if the slow slippage of a volcano off north Africa becomes a cataclysmic collapse. But the good news is the world is not likely to be destroyed by an asteroid any time soon.Scientist Bill McGuire told that some time in the next few thousand years the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma will collapse, sending walls of water 100 meters high racing across the Atlantic. A chunk of the volcano [Cumbre...
  • La Palma Simulation

    01/21/2005 10:33:58 PM PST · by MRMEAN · 13 replies · 337+ views
    Many experts believe an eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma could cause a massive landslide, triggering a "mega-tsunami." The giant tidal wave would measure over 150 feet tall, travel at 500 mph, and smash into North and South America with destructive force. The U.S. would have only 6 to 12 hours to evacuate the tens of millions of people living along the eastern shoreline.
  • Giant wave could threaten US

    08/09/2004 8:34:11 PM PDT · by FormerACLUmember · 114 replies · 4,095+ views
    BBC ^ | 10 August 2004
    A collapsing volcano in the Atlantic could unleash a giant wave of water that would swamp the Caribbean and much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, a scientist has claimed. Dr Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, UK, believes one flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma, in the Canaries archipelago, is unstable and could plunge into the ocean. If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the...
  • US also faces tsunami threat (East Coast)

    12/27/2004 4:53:25 AM PST · by Rebelbase · 60 replies · 6,385+ views
    news24.com ^ | 12/27/04 | Ilse Arendse
    Paris - Cities on the US East Coast and in the Caribbean could be wrecked by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic, British scientists believe. A massive chunk of La Palma, the most volcanically active island in the Canaries archipelago, is unstable, says Simon Day, of the Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Centre at University College London. He calculates that its flank could collapse the next time the volcano, Cumbre Vieja, erupts. If so, that would send a dome-shaped wall of water up to 100 metres high racing across the Atlantic at 800...
  • Mega-Tsunami (US East Coast to be Annihilated?)

    12/28/2004 6:19:53 PM PST · by FormerACLUmember · 144 replies · 7,068+ views
    BBC ^ | 12 October 2000 | BBC Science staff
    Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world. Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been...
  • Canary Islands Landslides And Mega-Tsunamis: Should We Really Be Worried?

    08/19/2004 6:57:53 AM PDT · by blam · 10 replies · 864+ views
    Science Daily Magazine ^ | 8-19-2004 | University Of Southhampton
    Source: University Of Southampton Date: 2004-08-19 Canary Islands Landslides And Mega-Tsunamis: Should We Really Be Frightened? What is the reality behind stories of mega-tsunamis wiping out the American east coast and southern England? Very little, according to Dr Russell Wynn and Dr Doug Masson from Southampton Oceanography Centre, who have been studying Canary Islands landslides for many years. Their research has shown that stories of a devastating 'mega-tsunami' some 300 feet high and travelling at 500 mph are greatly exaggerated, and that reports suggesting tens of millions of people could be killed have little basis in reality. Dr Russell Wynn...
  • Hollywood fantasy? Tidal wave disaster is just waiting to happen

    08/11/2004 5:57:52 PM PDT · by pepsi_junkie · 24 replies · 1,520+ views
    The Guardian Unlimited ^ | August 10, 2004 | Ian Sample
    Scientist says governments are ignoring threat of a piece of rock as big as the Isle of Man crashing into the Atlantic Ian Sample, science correspondentTuesday August 10, 2004The Guardian It has everything you could wish for in a cliche-ridden disaster movie. A beautiful volcanic island in the Atlantic is on the brink of catastrophic collapse, threatening to unleash giant waves that will wreak havoc around the globe within hours. And while scientists try in vain to make their concerns heard, the world's governments look the other way. But yesterday a leading expert claimed the doom-laden scenario was not only...
  • Was Russian Arctic Sea ship deploying a static weapon to cause catastrophic zot?

    04/03/2011 1:15:53 AM PDT · by Kabud · 75 replies
    Freerepublic | April 3 , 2011 | Kabud
    Summer of 2009 1) Hurricane Bill 2) big fire on La Palma Island 3) at the same time, same area, Russian subs and surface vessels were operating 4) Wonder of wonders, a Russian cargo ARCTIC SEA ship "disappears" after being fitted at the port of Murmansk.MURMANSK,  in spite of massive multinational hi-tech search and chase operation. 5) eventually the cargo ship is suddenly "found" in the same area off the Cape Verde Islands, where the Russian subs had been operating. 6) same area is home to the Cumbre Vieja Shelf, undersea volcanoes see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja and: http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf and: http://www.maine.gov/doc/nrimc/mgs/explore/hazards/tsunami/jan05.htm It is...
  • Koran scholar: US will cease to exist in 2007

    03/31/2005 8:53:55 PM PST · by hispanichoosier · 29 replies · 1,174+ views
    A thorough analysis of the Koran reveals that the US will cease to exist in the year 2007, according to research published by Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi.
  • Scientists: Volcano Could Swamp U.S. with Mega-Tsunami

    03/29/2005 3:41:11 PM PST · by ex-Texan · 154 replies · 4,896+ views
    China Daily ^ | 3/29/2005 | Staff Writers
    A wall of water up to 55 yards high crashing into the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, flattening everything in its path -- not a Hollywood movie but a dire prophecy by some British and U.S. academics. As the international community struggles to aid victims of last month's devastating tsunami in southern Asia, scientists warn an eruption of a volcano in Spain's Canary Islands could unleash a "mega-tsunami" larger than any in recorded history. Hammocks almost buried at the beach of Pajara district in Fuerteventura island (Canary Island), southern Spain. Countries all around the Atlantic rim could be hit...
  • Koran Scholar: US Will Cease to Exist in 2007 (It's in the book!)

    03/28/2005 8:11:58 PM PST · by quidnunc · 223 replies · 5,551+ views
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | March 29, 2005 | Khaled Abu Toameh
    A thorough analysis of the Koran reveals that the US will cease to exist in the year 2007, according to research published by Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi. The study, which has caught the attention of millions of Muslims worldwide, is based on in-depth interpretations of various verses in the Koran. It predicts that the US will be hit by a tsunami larger than that which recently struck southeast Asia. "The tsunami waves are a minor rehearsal in comparison with what awaits the US in 2007," the researcher concluded in his study. "The Holy Koran warns against the Omnipotent Allah's force....