La Palma Tsunami

[Rushmore]

For some reason, after going 39 years without EVER having heard of it, I have been recently deluged (so to speak) with information about the volcanic Canary Island of La Palma, and the tsunami which will result from its collapse. They say it will precipitate a mega-disaster never before seen, and that it's not a question of IF, but of WHEN.

Now, I don't want to be Chicken Little here, but this stuff is a little scary, no?

http://www.benfieldhrc.org/SiteRoot/in_the_news/press_cuttings/Insurance%20Day/why_the_only_certainty.htm

http://farshores.proboards1.com/index.cgi?board=prop&action=display&num=1090199032

You get the idea. Do a Google search.

Go west, young man.

Or, as Mr. Maynard James Keenan has been heard to advise, "Learn to swim."

[Rob Blackburn]

Did you see the Discovery Science show on Mega-Tsunami?

After reading the articles on your post I saw the Mega-Tsunami show on the guide and checked it out. Very intresting stuff hope this happens after I am dead and gone.

[brassnuts]

I watched a show about this just last night on Discovery Science Channel (aka the best channel on television)

[cnfuzzd]

just have your motorboat ready. If you have more than 4-5 hours advance notice, you can just power out to sea and laugh as this mighty force of destruction passes harmlessly under you....

peace

john nickle

[cnfuzzd]

or you could just listen to reason, and not worry about something thats probably not going to happen for a very, very, very long time. Nude cheerleaders say "Mega-tsunamis get us really wet!" (http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/iberianature/material/megatsunami.html)

personally, my favorite mega-disaster to worry about is the impending erruption of the super-volcano under yellowstone. It is probably going to engulf like 8 different states in liquid hot magma, and the rest of the world will be little better off. Time frame: one every 150-300 thousand years.


peace

john nickle

[wacki]

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personally, my favorite mega-disaster to worry about is the impending erruption of the super-volcano under yellowstone. It is probably going to engulf like 8 different states in liquid hot magma, and the rest of the world will be little better off. Time frame: one every 150-300 thousand years.

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Ya that's my favorite too. One thing you forgot to say is that we are overdue for yellowstone to pop. The center of yellow stone is swelling up and yellowstone's major lake is actually moving due to the bulging/tilted landscape. Trees that don't grow in water are now several deep in the lake. I've read so many conflicting articles on yellowstone it's hard to tell what is real and what's not. Some say it could pop sometime within the next few generations, others say it's stable. I need a geologist to sift through the bull.