What do you guys expect the death toll to be if a mega tsunami does hit the american east coast?
i could see 10's of thousands of people dying easily, without question
the infastructure in the east coast also wasnt built to tolerate tsunamis i assume
theirs no way they could fix that within a reasonable amount of time.
so if buildings getted washed and shit, i could see 100 thousand people dying.
Depends on the evacuation efforts. The worst case death toll would be from mass panic evacuation at the last minute, where millions of vehicles are stuck in awful traffic jams trying to get out of the cities, across all the cities on the coast. Seven figure death toll would be easy in that situation. Once a Tsunami water actively hits you, most don't survive that.
You're probably gonna see a lot of stupidity deaths as well - From people who don't think an evacuation is needed, think sheltering in place is fine, try sheltering atop a building (Most will be too short for that to work, and the east coast doesn't got much in the way of tsunami resistant architecture, its liable to collapse). You'll also see a lot of social media related deaths - One of the interesting things that happens with a tsunami is as the wave approaches, the coastal waters tend to recede temporarily. You'll have curious dumbasses in decades past walk down onto the now exposed sea floor and check it out. Now imagine that, but they have social media clout on instagram and tik tok for a "once in a lifetime photo opportunity". It won't account for a lot of deaths, but it'll be high visibility, high profile shit that'd be all over the news.
The deaths in the following six months would be hard to predict - The East Coast would functionally be destroyed in that time period - Ports would be obliterated, roads all over the place washed off, buildings destroyed. Over a hundred million people live in east coast states, and significant portions, if not a majority, live directly along the coast itself - Not unique to it, living along water is a great idea normally. So a hundred million people displaced at least temporarily, millions of home and businesses and workplaces gone, ports shut down and destroyed, shipping disrupted even worse than it already is - During a pandemic and a global supply chain collapse.
Its hard to predict how bad it would be, but it would be bad for everyone in North America, and impactful for the entire globe.
