La Palma is rumbling - What are the implications of a 40 foot Tsunami along the east coast?

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I'm just west of getting fucked.
 
Who's Seething said:
I think you may be blowing this out of proportion just a tad... events of this magnitude wouldn't be perceptible to most. Also, I am no expert, but Miami would likely be the only area of Florida in which there could be major property damage in monetary terms, and from what I understand they have been hiring companies from the Netherlands to build flood mitigation infrastructure for years for at least the most pricey parts of the city. It certainly would be interesting though if such an event were to occur.
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Miami and Daytona would be turbo-fucked. Same with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and possibly Wilmington, North Carolina.

Basically any city without a well-duned barrier island and ample salt marsh between the ocean and itself is in a bad position, because those geographic features are effective at dissipating water surges.
Its also bad science to just assume "20m wave = everybody <20m elevation is fucked.
However, in any natural disaster the threat is less what nature can do, and more how humans will react.

EDIT: The Northeast Coast would probably be more fucked. Less inhibitory geography (even without human destruction of the salt marshes) and closer to the radial due to the curvature of the earth (despite the south being closer in latitude).
 
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D_Tractor said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QjG958lZ1KI
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The worst part about American politicians meddling with situations regarding the environment of other countries, the harder it is to keep a straight face and act as if these people are experts as to how “climate change” is a serious problem. When it does not involve China and India, that is.
 
Fanatical Pragmatist said:
Miami and Daytona would be turbo-fucked. Same with Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and possibly Wilmington, North Carolina.

Basically any city without a well-duned barrier island and ample salt marsh between the ocean and itself is in a bad position, because those geographic features are effective at dissipating water surges.
Its also bad science to just assume "20m wave = everybody <20m elevation is fucked.
However, in any natural disaster the threat is less what nature can do, and more how humans will react.

EDIT: The Northeast Coast would probably be more fucked. Less inhibitory geography (even without human destruction of the salt marshes) and closer to the radial due to the curvature of the earth (despite the south being closer in latitude).
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Well, good thing I've visited three out of those four locations, already.
The only natural disasters I have to worry about are tornados and those of my own making.
 
So the rest of Atlantis will destroy atlanta? thats a twist--
 
Pop pop fizz fizz said:
a contest?
Okay, how about a global tectonic event that does what you already describe, but also triggers the "Big One" earthquake in California resulting in California sliding off into the ocean, leaving Nevada as beachfront property as Lex Luthor intended, at the same time the 3 Gorges damn in China is shaken loose and collapses.
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Note then the "Big One" might also shake Portland and Seattle but however New Madrid might said "hold my beer" shaking the Mississippi river from Memphis to St. Louis.
 
Is this gonna propagate up the St. lawrence river? The great lakes might not be safe
 
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