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

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CatgirlTyranid said:
"It won't happen to me." When it comes to potential massive disasters the tendency is to favor nothing happening, because generally that's a safe bet. Last time this volcano erupted was something like 50 years ago and besides property damage people survived and life continued on the island relatively unabated.

Fleeing is a hassle and no one wants to feel like they spent a fuckton of money or time running from what eventually amounted to a nothing burger.
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The other problem is if they do evacuate, they quickly get impatient if nothing quickly happens. That's what happened with Mt. St. Helen's. The mountain seemingly quieted down for a few weeks. By week 2 the evacuees were going all Karen on the Governor demanding to be let back in and return to normal. By week 6 Kaboom!

If things don't go as bad as predicted or as fast as predicted people quickly start ignoring subsequent alerts. This becomes a huge problem for hurricane areas.

Edit; Bushcraft Bear with another nightime report from the gates of hell itself. (Great property value! Close to the bus routes.)
 
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RodgerDodger said:
Edit; Bushcraft Bear with another nightime report from the gates of hell itself. (Great property value! Close to the bus routes.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9gdQYBIGplo
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This guy has became a celebrity really quick.

I dont tthink ive ever seen anyone bring in 200k in subs so quick.

Hope he survives all this. He seems like a good dude
 
This video shared previously is quite soothing. Probably because I live thousands of miles away from the action. But the audio would make a great white noise soundtrack for sleep:


(Aside: Did some asshole turn on autoplay for YouTube embeds on KF? If so please turn it off.)
 
RodgerDodger said:
Yeah, I didn't put that quite right. That line, those faults are the area of long term concern. The point where they figure if the island is gonna trigger even a small apocalypse, that's where and how it will eventually go. But they don't seem to think we're near that point. Although seeing a lot of seismic activity along that fault does raise eyebrows. It's sort of drifting from impossible to improbable and may be edging into extremely unlikely territory. Even if it went I don't think the US and Mexican Coasts would see much in the way of a tsunami. The greatest risk from a major event would probably be to Bermuda.
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The greatest risk would be the surrounding islands which are in the point-blank radius of the displacement waves.
Even Bermuda would get some level of oceanic dispersion, maybe not enough, but certainly nowhere near as bad as what the surrounding Canaries would see.
 
Is it near daytime and the camera's overly affected by the glare, or is the rooster just high on sulfur fumes?
Joking aside, I'm assuming that the light from this is messing with the local animals' sleeping habits.
 
The golden neckbeard said:
This guy has became a celebrity really quick.

I dont think ive ever seen anyone bring in 200k in subs so quick.

Hope he survives all this. He seems like a good dude
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That hero rides his bike up to the overlook (and everywhere else) for his videos. He's probably one of the hardest working YouTubers.

Desu Mountain said:
Rooster crowing on stream again.
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It's just like the roosters in Florida, they never shut up.
 
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Bushcraft Bear took a trip down to the town by the Lava flow, and a little closer to the volcano. For all his seemingly random train of thought delivery, he actually is very good at this. It’s very powerful to see him in one part of the town, where life is still making an attempt at normal, and as he gets closer to the volcano the town becomes a haunting ghost town, with only the disturbing sounds of the volcano. Also props to him. He politely asks the police permission to go into various areas to get some footage.
 
Leaf Wage Slave said:
Hopefully people are smart and have gotten clear the fuck away by now - though I’m on this site, so I have no hope in that first part.
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That reminds me of a video I saw maybe two weeks after this started. A vacationing couple was complaining that their flight was cancelled and they were stuck in the airport. So your first instinct wasn’t to get out after a fucking volcano erupted?!?

People, a bit a friendly advice. There is no shame in saying “Fuck this shit. I’m out.” If nothing happens, then you just went through a trial run, and you’ll be more prepared. If the worst happens, well, you survived. Congrats.

Anyway, here’s your visual of the increasing earthquakes in the past 24 hours. I don’t like that the stronger, deeper ones are moving northeast.
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RodgerDodger said:
Bushcraft Bear took a trip down to the town by the Lava flow, and a little closer to the volcano. For all his seemingly random train of thought delivery, he actually is very good at this. It’s very powerful to see him in one part of the town, where life is still making an attempt at normal, and as he gets closer to the volcano the town becomes a haunting ghost town, with only the disturbing sounds of the volcano. Also props to him. He politely asks the police permission to go into various areas to get some footage.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U2xlu9jg1QA
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I will be sad if the tsunami hurts this dude.
 
100 earthquakes?
Guise, relax. You gotta know that nothing is happening or will happen ever, ya bunch of sillies!
Just trust what the USGS reports. Sure, it hasn't shown a single quake for the Canary Islands but it's science! Trust it!

The site I'm mocking is here

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FatalTater said:
100 earthquakes?
Guise, relax. You gotta know that nothing is happening or will happen ever, ya bunch of sillies!
Just trust what the USGS reports. Sure, it hasn't shown a single quake for the Canary Islands but it's science! Trust it!

The site I'm mocking is here

Latest Earthquakes

earthquake.usgs.gov earthquake.usgs.gov
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The USGS reporting threshold is 2.5. Apparently most of the quakes today on la Palma were only detected by local equipment. Only 3 or 4 were even felt by the locals. So they may all be below the reporting and mapping threshold for the web site.
 
RodgerDodger said:
The USGS reporting threshold is 2.5. Apparently most of the quakes today on la Palma were only detected by local equipment. Only 3 or 4 were even felt by the locals. So they may all be below the reporting and mapping threshold for the web site.
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I know, I just heard that site recommended too many times a couple weeks ago, so now I pick on it.
 
Could be wrong but I think tthe top vents may have just merged? It went from the lower one looking almost closed up to very rapidly reopening and shit's gotten so bright it's hard to see anything but one big flare atm.
Lava pouring down that channel too, so fast you can appreciably watch it advance.

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Aib Ld said:
Is the increasing earthquake activity normal for volcanoes or is it a lead up to something bad?
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Good question. There were many earthquakes leading up to this current eruption on Sept. 19. Then they slowed down or ceased. Logically, that was because the underground movement of magma had found a suitable vent (or vents) to release the pressure.

However, in the past few days the earthquakes have started again. From everything I’ve read, this indicates that 1.) magma is still trying to get to the surface and 2.) the current vents may not be enough to release that pressure.

Take into account that the experts cannot monitor true earthquakes below 2.0 or so because of the normal volcanic tremors, and I really think this one is an oddity.
 
Volcano getting fiesty again, just as the sun starts to rise.
 
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