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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Steve Lee who wrote (6402)10/29/2002 2:49:22 PM
From: Wyätt GwyönRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
"If the Cumbre Vieja were to collapse as one single block, it would lead to a giant mega-tsunami with an initial wave height of 650 metres. It would have a wavelength of 30 to 40 kilometres (18 to 25 miles) travelling westwards across the Atlantic at speeds up to 720 km/h (450 mph) towards America."

i guess i should get my surfboard waxed! although it's probably hard to maintain balance at 450 mph on a 2000 foot wave (except in the movies!)... i heard that during the last big tsunami to hit Hawaii, initially water was sucked away from the shore really quickly, like extremely low tide, leaving all these fish floundering on the sand. the villagers were lured out to the sand by this, and went out to pick up the fish like it was a windfall. then the tsunami came in really quick and they didn't even know what hit them. apparently the audible warning system was broken, or else there had been too many false alarms, so people were caught unawares.. i heard that tsunami started in South America or some such place. (now somebody can go find a website for this for our edification.)

But researchers caution that such a catastrophe may not occur for many decades.

oh, that's reassuring!
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