PhotonBoy
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Why America\'s coast could be toast
independent.co.uk
10 August 2004
"It sounds like the plot of a fanciful Hollywood disaster movie. A dangerous volcano in the Canary Islands erupts, sends a giant tsunami travelling faster than a jet aircraft into the major population centres of America's east coast, killing tens of millions and wiping out New York and Washington DC.
But unlike the eruption in the 1997 film Volcano (which threatened in its tagline that 'the coast is toast') scientists believe the threat from the volcano of Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma is real, and that it could send a massive slab of rock twice the size of the Isle of Man crashing into the Atlantic...."
I'm not convinced that if this happens it'll be as bad as they're suggesting it might be. After all, the Canaries have been around for a long time and I've never read of great inundations occurring on America's east coast. But then again, the last Ice Age may have scraped away any evidence of one. In any case, there's not a lot anyone can do about it.
independent.co.uk
10 August 2004
"It sounds like the plot of a fanciful Hollywood disaster movie. A dangerous volcano in the Canary Islands erupts, sends a giant tsunami travelling faster than a jet aircraft into the major population centres of America's east coast, killing tens of millions and wiping out New York and Washington DC.
But unlike the eruption in the 1997 film Volcano (which threatened in its tagline that 'the coast is toast') scientists believe the threat from the volcano of Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma is real, and that it could send a massive slab of rock twice the size of the Isle of Man crashing into the Atlantic...."
I'm not convinced that if this happens it'll be as bad as they're suggesting it might be. After all, the Canaries have been around for a long time and I've never read of great inundations occurring on America's east coast. But then again, the last Ice Age may have scraped away any evidence of one. In any case, there's not a lot anyone can do about it.