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Surf's Up (North Atlantic Tidal Wave)

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:09 pm
by McGruff
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/ ... 15,00.html

The bit that really gets me is the estimated speed: 560mph. That's more like a shotgun blast than a wave. Anything that gets in its way (like the US east coast) is toast.

But cheer up - it might never happen. The Yosemite supervolcano might beat La Palma to it. I forget the numbers exactly, but it goes off something like every 600,000 years (as regular as old faithful) and it's 620,000 years since the last one. The La Palma collapse is just a little local difficulty in comparison. The eruption might extinguish most life on earth.

Have a nice day now!

Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:19 pm
by qads
yes...scare people [*cough*]less and then hope they would have a nice day :lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:35 am
by m3mn0n
Yeah I heard about this over at cnn.com, this is sure freaky.

But lucky me, I'm pretty far from the East coast, and I have the Rockies just west of me to protect me from the Pacific. 8)

Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:48 am
by d3ad1ysp0rk
I like 20 minutes from the maine coast.. :|

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:18 pm
by evilmonkey
Hmm, let's see. I have PEI, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunskwick, Quebec, and half of Ontario to protect me. I think I'll be fine for the tidal wave, seeing as I'm further up north than the U.S...so, I think I'll be fine. LilpunkSkater, packed your bags yet? :P

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:19 pm
by Draco_03
Wait wait.. WE HAVE ontario to protect us from all the stuff coming from caraibean sea :)

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:22 pm
by evilmonkey
Carraibean? I don't think we have to worry about that too much...:)

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:31 pm
by Draco_03
Aww. geez of course..all the big typhoon tornado and the likes comes from here.. or the US.. wich is both closer to you..
but you can run to my home for protection.. i'll get you something comfy in my basement 8)

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:35 pm
by evilmonkey
Haha, I'll keep that in mind :lol: . Hopefully Ontario will stay whole for next little while though and I won't need to take you up on that offer. :mrgreen:

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 3:45 pm
by Draco_03
Hehehe, hopefully it'll stay intact :D

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 4:22 pm
by McGruff
If you take a look at http://www.maps.com/reference/phypol/atlas/phy/USA.html all the green bits are land up to 500ft.

The tsunami is estimated to be 60-150ft high BUT it'll be travelling at over 500mph and from front to back will be over 100 miles deep.

When it hits land it won't stop. The pressure and momentum of billions of tons of seawater behind the wave front will force it onwards and upwards all the way to the Appalachian foothills. The entire Florida peninsula will be scoured clean - not a stick left standing. It's so powerful that it will permanently alter the geography of the east US (and other parts of the globe) ripping the tops off of hills, tearing chunks out of the coastline, and so on. Cities like Washington DC won't just be destroyed, there will hardly be anything left to show that they were ever there.

Calling it a biblical-scale disaster would be a gross understatement.

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 11:54 pm
by m3mn0n
That sure is going to help me sleep at night.

/me has relatives all over the eastern US coast