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2011-09-28 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by phil_b 2011-09-28 02:14|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 If the tsunami came to pass, D.C. would get that long overdue flushing. And few other places too, it would be shame that places that don't deserve it would also be affected.

Posted by Secret Asian Man (New Delhi) 2011-09-28 03:37|| 2011-09-28 03:37|| Front Page Top

#2 In other news, the Obama administration announced a $100 billion grant for wave power generation to a consortium led by Louis Farrakhan.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-28 06:02|| 2011-09-28 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Never mind DC, if that threatened tsunami broke right, everything between the seaboard and the Blue Ridge would get your "long overdue flushing", Secret Asian Man. Please don't ill-wish. ^_^

Frankly, I think they're exaggerating - it'd be enormous in the Canary Islands, but after two thousand miles for the wave to fan out & spread out - hell, I'm a liberal arts major, ask somebody who can do math in his head.

But that terrible Lituya Bay tsunami in Alaska back in the Fifties did a number on the local fjord, not the whole west coast, right?

I quote:

Underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruptions do not normally generate such large tsunamis, but landslides next to bodies of water resulting from earthquakes can, since they cause a massive amount of displacement. If the landslide or impact occurs in a limited body of water, as happened at the Vajont Dam (1963) and Lituya Bay (1958) then the water may be unable to disperse and one or more exceedingly large waves may result.

Emphasis on limited body of water.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-09-28 08:49|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-09-28 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Well the tsunami would only be 50 meters high by the time it got to America and would penetrate about 25 km inland. Since DC is protected by the eastern shore, it seems that our politicians would escape. As usual...

Posted by Steve White 2011-09-28 08:52|| 2011-09-28 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not holding my breath on this one. It is just as likely that a wall of Mauna Loa could collapse, wiping out Honolulu 30 minutes later with a 30 meter high tsunami traveling 25km inland, according to Nat. Geographic.

The last time that happened was in 1975, and though the slump was just a few yards, after a 7.5 earthquake, it created a small tsunami and scared the poop out of everyone. Killed two people who were camping.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-28 09:17|| 2011-09-28 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 These types of predictions sound all too much like the AGW freaks. "OOOOHH, 15 more CO2 molecules are going to destroy the earth!!!"

When did Chicken Little become the preferred self-help book?

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-28 09:54|| 2011-09-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Killed two people who were camping.

On Oahu or Hawai'i? [googles]

Ah, it was on the wrong side of the island to molest Oahu, the campers were killed on the southeast coast of the big island.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-09-28 11:32|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-09-28 11:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Mitch H. Funny that you should mention Lituya Bay in Alaska. I have flown over the bay many times in trips between Sitka and Anchorage. It is a beautiful bay, and a great anchorage for fishing boats. However, there is a catch. Earthquakes and massive landslides make it an exciting anchorage. Three fishing boats were anchored near the entrance. One boat was lost and the two other boats survived with the ride of their lives. Wiki article.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-09-28 14:57|| 2011-09-28 14:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I will leave the results of a google search on "la palma tsunami debunked" as an exercise for the reader.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-28 15:35|| 2011-09-28 15:35|| Front Page Top

#10 While there is evidence of two such major collapses in the Hawaiian islands, I gather it is far more likely that there is a major shelf collapse underwater, the equivalent of a massive landslide, caused by an earthquake.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-28 17:44|| 2011-09-28 17:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Most of the End of the World scenarios in the media nowadays read like a bad Irwin Allen movie from the 1970s and 80s, you know, like Earthquake or the Towering Inferno?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-28 18:04|| 2011-09-28 18:04|| Front Page Top

#12 ...yes, they've run the man made atomic apocalypse thingy into the ground. Got to find something else to scare the rubes with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-28 18:51|| 2011-09-28 18:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Is it wrong I'm more concerned about the Unique eco-system of the Canaries than of the East Coast being hit?

Posted by Charles 2011-09-28 19:51|| 2011-09-28 19:51|| Front Page Top

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