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

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Looks like that one side is going.

I can't be the only one thinking that the tourism board encouraging people to visit the island right now is irresponsible, right?
 
Some cool footage of giant flaming boulders pouring out of the volcano, plus that intense shrieking sound it's making
FatalTater said:
Looks like that one side is going.

I can't be the only one thinking that the tourism board encouraging people to visit the island right now is irresponsible, right?
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Anything that has the potential of culling the herd of incredibly stupid people seems like a perfectly reasonable policy to me. Better yet if you get their money before they die horribly. These people are like the worst meme's of European Tourists.
 
Michael Janke said:
that reminds me of when you get dry ice and touch metal with it.
so when this fully erupts, its gonna fuck up everything within several hundred miles of it, right?
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The actual volcano isn't likely to go big kaboom from what I understand, not unless the collapsing chunks plug it up way harder than I think is possible. But if it keeps rumbling angrier and angrier, doomsday tsunami will stay on the fringes of the table.
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
The actual volcano isn't likely to go big kaboom from what I understand, not unless the collapsing chunks plug it up way harder than I think is possible. But if it keeps rumbling angrier and angrier, doomsday tsunami will stay on the fringes of the table.
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even if there's not a big kaboom. all that ash, dust and sulfur getting launched into the air is going to cause major problems for the area surrounding it,
the tsunami thing is a dice roll.
 
Michael Janke said:
that reminds me of when you get dry ice and touch metal with it.
so when this fully erupts, its gonna fuck up everything within several hundred miles of it, right?
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This is what fully erupting looks like. It doesn't get much more full than this, for this type of volcano. It's pumping out incredible amounts of lava at rarely witnessed speeds and pressures. Unless the throat of the volcano somehow becomes blocked, we're not going to see an explosive eruption. Because all the pressure is being released via it vomiting out lava. The still looming danger is a landslide or shear from all of the seismic activity. With the worst case being large chunks of the island break off and sink, triggering an Atlantic Tsunami.
 
RodgerDodger said:
This is what fully erupting looks like. It doesn't get much more full than this, for this type of volcano. It's pumping out incredible amounts of lava at rarely witnessed speeds and pressures. Unless the throat of the volcano somehow becomes blocked, we're not going to see an explosive eruption. Because all the pressure is being released via it vomiting out lava. The still looming danger is a landslide or shear from all of the seismic activity. With the worst case being large chunks of the island break off and sink, triggering an Atlantic Tsunami.
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i guess i was expecting a krakatoa type eruption instead of a pressure releasing type of eruption. though as i said before. tons of ash, dust and sulfur getting released into the air makes the area a hazard beyond just the extreme heat of the lava. hopefully the wind doesn't blow in a way thats kills all the residents.
even though the tsunami is unlikely now. if it ever erupts again, doesnt that increase the chances of this happening?
so its another one of those events that could eventually fuck a lot of people over, like the super volcano in yellowstone. the sanadreas fault ripping apart and a solar flare.
 
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Michael Janke said:
i guess i was expecting a krakatoa type eruption instead of a pressure releasing type of eruption. though as i said before. tons of ash, dust and sulfur getting released into the air makes the area a hazard beyond just the extreme heat of the lava. hopefully the wind doesn't blow in a way thats kills all the residents.
even though the tsunami is unlikely now. if it ever erupts again, doesnt that increase the chances of this happening?
so its another one of those events that could eventually fuck a lot of people over, like the super volcano in yellowstone. the sanadreas fault ripping apart and a solar flare.
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Ummm? You don't seem to get it. These Volcanos don't trigger a Tsunami in a way like Krakatoa did. They cause Tsunami's when they shear and trigger a massive landslide, millions of tons of rock screaming 4 miles deep into the seabed at 500 miles/hour. The eruption could cause this, as can any major seismic activity. Including when the current volcano subsides and the sinkhole forms the caldera. It's not a likely scenario, but it's not an impossible one at the moment.
 
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Wouldn't new magma from the subduction of the tectonic plate refill the magma chamber? Or is it one of those 'take decades' type of things?
 
Male Idiot said:
Wouldn't new magma from the subduction of the tectonic plate refill the magma chamber? Or is it one of those 'take decades' type of things?
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No it will be an semi empty void for a while that will fill up with water and stuff overtime
 
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