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Seems like this La Palma volcano could be kind of a big deal

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For the last few days I've been seeing YouTube video recs about the volcano on La Palma but didn't pay it much attention.  I've always been interested in volcanoes so I would check out the pretty pictures but other than that, life goes on.

Until I saw this bullshit:

I mean 2021 has been trying to one-up 2020 from the get go and this would officially make 2020 its bitch.

That seems like it would be problematic.

Something tells me Miami Beach condo towers wouldn't hold up too well.

29 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I mean 2021 has been trying to one-up 2020 from the get go and this would officially make 2020 its bitch.

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Maybe I should hold off on a vacation in Madeira.

1 hour ago, Bevo said:

Maybe I should hold off on a vacation in Madeira.

I’m moving to the east coast soon.  

The real question is how long will it take for the tsunami to travel the distance to the east coast? Im sure even with a week notice, we still leave like 50% of residents behind…because we’re stupid.

5 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

The real question is how long will it take for the tsunami to travel the distance to the east coast? Im sure even with a week notice, we still leave like 50% of residents behind…because we’re stupid.

Some idiots always stubbornly stick around in the face of a Cat 4/5 hurricane, so yea…

44 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

The real question is how long will it take for the tsunami to travel the distance to the east coast? Im sure even with a week notice, we still leave like 50% of residents behind…because we’re stupid.

“In the deep ocean, tsunamis can move as fast as a jet plane, over 500 mph (800 km/h), and can cross entire oceans in less than a day.”

When I was working FEMA response this was the one that kept everyone scared. Imagine what happened in the Indian Ocean hitting the Caribbean and our East Coast. 

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26 minutes ago, heso said:

“In the deep ocean, tsunamis can move as fast as a jet plane, over 500 mph (800 km/h), and can cross entire oceans in less than a day.”

Washington D.C. is ~3,400 miles from La Palma.  New York City is ~3,200 miles so we're looking at 6 - 7 hours.

East coast would be proper fucked.

Luckily geologic time is a massive scale. Unluckily, we are in an evil simulation. 

I havent crunched all the numbers yet, but what if we were to immediately shove chris christie into the ocean from somewhere long the atlantic seaboard, creating a wave of equal or greater magnitude? we good, or nah?

 

37 minutes ago, Blotto said:

I havent crunched all the numbers yet, but what if we were to immediately shove chris christie into the ocean from somewhere long the atlantic seaboard, creating a wave of equal or greater magnitude? we good, or nah?

Nope, you gotta take that bitch Carole Baskin and shove her into the ocean.  The amount of smugness that permeates every fiber of her being would repel that tsunami.

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We need these guys. And wetsuits.

We need this guy and some orange soda.

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Between this and the threat of the Yellowstone caldera....the U.S., eventually, gonna get fucked to Bolivia. 

The 1958 Alaska landslide tsunami is one of the wildest stories I ever read. Occurred in a small bay that amplified the wave. Some trees, over 1,700 feet above sea level, were washed out. A few people fishing in the bay lived to tell the story.

to be clear, the wave wasn’t 1,700 feet but between the water and energy, water was pushed that high on the adjacent mountains  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami

9 hours ago, RPM said:

We need this guy and some orange soda.

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I saw that movie in theaters with an ex-gf, really liked the movie for some reason (Meg Ryan).

20 years ago, I couldn't find another person who had seen it.

Now, I know a lot of people that have seen it.  

2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Joe vs the volcano is a tragically underrated movie.  Brain cloud.

I'd rank Volunteers a close 2nd.

12 minutes ago, RPM said:

I'd rank Volunteers a close 2nd.

 

I can never keep these things straight....

Tom Tuttle from Tacoma, Washington

 

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The 1958 Alaska landslide tsunami is one of the wildest stories I ever read. Occurred in a small bay that amplified the wave. Some trees, over 1,700 feet above sea level, were washed out. A few people fishing in the bay lived to tell the story.

to be clear, the wave wasn’t 1,700 feet but between the water and energy, water was pushed that high on the adjacent mountains  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami

You had a huge, steeply sided, bay that held the water, but it sloshed the sides like a bitch.

 

I posted that same video in the "holy shit" thread in response to someone posting drone footage of the current eruption.  It may not be this particular eruption that causes half of the island to slide into the ocean, but it will happen eventually.  It's a matter of when, not if...same as Yellowstone, Campi Flegrei, and Toba. 

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1 minute ago, Hanrahan said:

Do I have to evacuate if I live in Katy?

I thought that was a mandatory survival move.

13 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Some idiots always stubbornly stick around in the face of a Cat 4/5 hurricane, so yea…

They evacuated everybody from the (Florida) Keys and everybody leaves except for one guy who’s gonna stay there and tie himself to a tree on the beach, to prove a point; and the point was, he said, that at 53 years of age, he was in good enough physical condition to withstand the wind and the rain of a force 3 hurricane. OK, let me explain something to ya: it isn’t thatthe wind is blowin’. It’s what the wind is blowin’. If you get hit with a Volvo, it doesn’t really matter how many sit-ups you did that morning. If you have a "Yield" sign in your spleen, joggin' don't really come into play. "I can run 25 miles without stopping." "You're bleedin'." "Shit!"

13 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Been following this story for years.... it's a slippery slope.

that is good to know, by the time this happens it seems like people will be able to evacuate in their flying cars

Good God, think about the Volcano that guy has after a burrito truck run....

39 minutes ago, Hanrahan said:

Do I have to evacuate if I live in Katy?

Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. We thank you for your service.

56 minutes ago, Hanrahan said:

Do I have to evacuate if I live in Katy?

You should leave Katy, and that has nothing to do with this particular event. 

56 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Turns out it’s kinda bullshit

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5783736001

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It was kind of obvious from the get go. When the “news” cast starts with “But one scientist believes…” you know it is click bait bull shit to stir up the conspiracy theorist hypochondriacs that flip out over everything. They’ll get worked up for a day or two befor their attention gets drawn somewhere else.  

The 4 page “study” this nonsense is based off only predicts 25 meter waves, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, it’s grown to 100 meters or more

I'd like to volunteer my "member" as a strong countermeasure to this very large tsunami.

2 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:

The 4 page “study” this nonsense is based off only predicts 25 meter waves, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, it’s grown to 100 meters or more

That was a pretty cool series on HBO.

5 hours ago, Hanrahan said:

Do I have to evacuate if I live in Katy?

 Anyone who lives in Katy is encouraged NOT to evacuate. 

I bet if we called the 'Spanish Volcano' a 'Mexican Volcano'...we'd get some funds to build a seawall...pronto!  

BS...  This is just a theory and model that has been "poo-pooed" in the geology community...  It assumes the whole island does a "cannonball" (like the image above) rather than a "landslide" into the ocean...  Think of the difference of pouring a bucket of dirt in a lake vs. "dumping" it all at once... Yes, either could cause a tsunami but you aren't going to see a 25m wall of water wipe out the whole east coast...  (Yes, it could happen but the odds are probably as good as me winning the lottery tonight...) Even the Alaska example was a "black swan" event - narrow inlet channel and a seabead bottom that formed a "V" that accentuated the wave...

(That being said, if you have a house say, at Hilton Head, and want to sell it to me for $10, ignore what I said...)

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26 minutes ago, Grimas said:

BS...  This is just a theory and model that has been "poo-pooed" in the geology community...  It assumes the whole island does a "cannonball" (like the image above) rather than a "landslide" into the ocean...  Think of the difference of pouring a bucket of dirt in a lake vs. "dumping" it all at once... Yes, either could cause a tsunami but you aren't going to see a 25m wall of water wipe out the whole east coast...  (Yes, it could happen but the odds are probably as good as me winning the lottery tonight...) Even the Alaska example was a "black swan" event - narrow inlet channel and a seabead bottom that formed a "V" that accentuated the wave...

(That being said, if you have a house say, at Hilton Head, and want to sell it to me for $10, ignore what I said...)

 

Do I have to evacuate if I live in Katy?

Yes. Has nothing to do with the damn volcano tidal wave though.

(That being said, if you have a house say, at Hilton Head, and want to sell it to me for $10, ignore what I said...)


Don’t sell your beloved beach house to that cheap ass Grimas. I’ll give you $100. Cash

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