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

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i imagine earthqaukes are way more devistating on islands. due to the much smaller size and proximity to the ocean.

to answer the question: if a 40 foot tsunami hit the east coast of the united states. i could see a major economic crash, along with 10's of thousands of people dead at minimum. likely hundreds of thousands is more probable.
 

Bushcraft Bears nightly post. Has a nice look at living with the volcano. Talking about how the ash is getting in everywhere. Kind of wild seeing the Soccer Stadium playing matches with the lava glowing in the background. Especially knowing that another stadium just burned. I’m worried for the locals with the air quality getting worse. They just had to evacuate a few villages near the Italian volcano Vulcano yesterday due to high levels of Sulfur Dioxide and CO2 being vented.
 
Michael Janke said:
i imagine earthqaukes are way more devistating on islands. due to the much smaller size and proximity to the ocean.

to answer the question: if a 40 foot tsunami hit the east coast of the united states. i could see a major economic crash, along with 10's of thousands of people dead at minimum. likely hundreds of thousands is more probable.
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I think Japan is a better model than the various third world hellholes that got hit in the past. We don't have a lot of shanties on the East Coast.

Gullah may become an extinct language, though.
 
RodgerDodger said:
Kind of wild seeing the Soccer Stadium playing matches with the lava glowing in the background.
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Sport people are special

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Man, there's definitely some volcanic lightning being produced here and there. Saw someone point it out in the chat, but if you go to local time 1:53:09 there's a proper fork of lightning right between the upper vents.
 
Another mass release of lava from the lowest vent around 05:10 GMT.
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Lava was flowing fast enough to bubble up at the little ski jump about half way down.
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Main lava producing vent back to a trickle
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ETA: 10 minutes later
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Hot Cup of Joe said:
It's good for soil, is used in battlefield dressings (quickclot) is pretty rare as far as Ash goes...
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While a small amount of volcanic ash mixed into soil can be beneficial, a farm covered in ten feet of the stuff is a perhaps unrecoverable loss.

As for quickclot, if it is indeed made from volcanic ash, I can't believe there's a market for tens or hundreds of millions of cubic meters of it.
 
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