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

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Menotaur said:
You may recall a great tidal wave happened in Alaska when essentially a side of a mountain slid into the lake. High waves. This island - well what you see on the surface is just the tip, the "mountain" goes dow deep so if it collapses and the piece they believe can slide, does slid the island won't be gone but a 5-10 mile section would.

The displacement would most certainly send a wave of biblical proportions to the East Coast. Not the stuff of building falling, but deaths would be plenty and the damage would be insane. it would bankrupt insurance companies.

The damage would dwarf any hurricane and it would be a natural disaster on a scale we have not seen in recorded history probably.
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You may have noticed that we don't generall see much in the way of Tsnami's in North America. When we do see them it is generally from near coastal events. Unlike in the Pacific the Continental shelf is hundreds of miles offshore. Any tsunami crossing the Atlantic is generally disipated when it runs up against the North/South American Continental Shelves.
 
There are intense explosions taking place today in the main cone of the volcano. Source.

Watch it with audio.
 
FatalTater said:
I love the idiots in the yt chats that, every morning when the orange from the lava isn't as pronounced, ask if it's over.
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I've been checking in on the pol threads and they do the same thing. "oh it's really heating up tonight" without realizing it hasn't stopped, it's just not as pretty during the day.
 
FatalTater said:
I love the idiots in the yt chats that, every morning when the orange from the lava isn't as pronounced, ask if it's over.
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Its the other way around, its bad news if you dont see lave spewing

The volcano Seems to be morphing into a more Ashey silica type. That aint good. Those are the type that go Krakatoa and Mount St. Helens.

According to most geologists we have several more months of this eruption. This could be a big deal if this keeps up. The explosion's today are ridiculous and seeing boulders the size of cars being thrown miles isn't encouraging


The more i see this the more I think we need to move the happenin Con up a notch
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Maybe time to go to YOU DIDNT LISTEN

Better angle at that last Explosion

 


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Holy shit another one just now. This thing is hurling rocks that weigh thousands of pounds for miles

This is getting out of control.

This is gonna happen isn't it?

That fucker is gonna collapse on itself

I only check /Pol for the memes
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Aib Ld said:
Not sure if related, but there's a wave that is projected to quickly form into a major hurricane right after forming.
Other than that, I'm a bit scared. Even if it turns out to be a nothingburger and Mother Nature is Mother Nature, the fact that people are going "nothing to see here, move along" feels worrisome too. Hell, I only knew about this because of this thread.
I have family on the East Coast, I and they never encountered a tsunami, and I know nothing about tsunamis except the basic common sense of "get the fuck out of the place". Don't know how fucked they are since I don't know how fast or slow tsunamis are either, so I don't know if they have enough time if they live in Georgia and travel to the border of Alabama or something.
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Where at in Georgia?
Really they would just have to get west of Statesboro/Valdosta. Honestly west of the Pleistocene coastal terraces usually a county inland or so.

Georgia has an advantage over Florida in the most of Georgia's barrier islands are still natural and covered in trees, as well as a larger salt marsh buffer.
In the 2004 Indonesian hurricane coastal vegetation was found to play a huge role in dissipating the damage to inland structures behind it.

This is also assuming the undular bore of the shallow Atlantic Shelf doesn't disrupt the tsunami.
CatgirlTyranid said:
Fuck the weather man. Bring back the weather girls who got the predictions wrong. I want big boob boom wave!
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I think Taiwan still does that.
 
John Andrews Stan said:
Where can I see this specifically? Not spotted car-sized rocks flying miles through the air on any of these videos.
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They dont look like the size of cars because the camera is miles away.

Here is the live stream



Here is an explosion from earlier. Keep in mind the perspective, those are fully grown tree's. Those rocks are massive

 
This is badass. I’m butthurt that the government is confiscating drones in the area. I want to see this shit up close (well, as close as the drone can get without melting).
 
reminder: over a dozen landslides have have happened in the last 100,000 years that created mega tsunami's
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All the islands are guilty but La Palma is the one to worry about at the moment. You can literally see the old landslides on the ocean floor and the area's on the islands. These were probably catatrophic to early human settlements on the coasts
 
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