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There have been a lot of earthquakes in the Canary islands at El Heiro. This is the volcano that is sliding into the ocean. If it does there will be a massive tsunami all along the east coast of the US.
Some of the earthquake guys on RITA Now may want to give us an opinion.
Yes , the geologists and scientists watch this everyday .
CUMBRE LA VIEJA , La Palma , The Canary Islands .
Very dangerous . The unstable crust would fall westward into the ocean releasing a fast moving tsunami to the eastern coast of the United States .
I believe the tsunami would hit central Florida all the way to New York , may ultimately effect Great Britain .
The warning time is very short on this slide .
The BBC did several television specials on this .
Thank you Curtis . Bless you .
bonnie's right that it's Cumbre Vieja on La Palma that might slide into the Atlantic and trigger a tsunami that would wreck our Atlantic coast (plus a lot of other places).
Twelve years ago the BBC did a TV programme on Cumbre Vieja, which you can watch online in English or Spanish; there are also various links, including a transcript (only available in English):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml
When El Hierro was first becoming active last year, someone somewhere online postulated that an event on El Hierro (I don't remember if they were thinking landslide or eruption -- in any case, it was one of the dormant volcanoes on the island, not the new baby volcano in the ocean) was likely to send a wave of water not toward us, but in the direction of the unstable part of La Palma. The thought was that activity on El Hierro would trigger the landslide on La Palma which would then send the tsunami our way.
This might be the original Cumbre Vieja academic paper:
http://wet.kuleuven.be/wetenschapinbreedbeeld/lesmateriaal_geologie/wardday-lapalmatsunami.pdf
Here are some scientists doing experiments to try to cause a tsunami (they couldn't):
http://home.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=10913&L=1
And here's a website claiming it won't happen:
http://www.lapalma-tsunami.com/tsunami.html
This was my favorite La Palma site; it has great maps and diagrams:
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~andyf/LaPalma/
Oooh -- this time the QuickTime animations work!
Nice feature....if you click on a tag...like Canary Islands....you can see other threads that have been around on this subject. Worth taking a look.
Love D
*** a poster on Doves warned that she had three visions , three different occasions , while standing lakeside on a very large lake near her home , several summers ago . Her name is Jenny . She saw a tsunami approach the Atlantic side , east coast USA in each vision .
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