Thread: tsunami

How long will a tsunami from aftrica take to get to the united states?
A island off the west coast of Africa has been determined to possibly erupt and drop a huge chunk of land into the Atlantic ocean. It will cause a tsunami and I want to know how long it will take to travel to the US. Maybe just the average speed of tsunami.
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Welcome to ALIPAC Willyex. The tsunamis we worry about here are the human ones that come across our southern border. The speed is unknown but it is constant and continuous unlike a one time event like you describe. Instead of just hitting our eastern shoreline the one we are currently experiencing is felt with strong effects in ever community in this country. The one you describe is short term and the one we are fighting is destroying the life blood of America.

Originally Posted by loneprotester

Welcome to ALIPAC Willyex. The tsunamis we worry about here are the human ones that come across our southern border. The speed is unknown but it is constant and continuous unlike a one time event like you describe. Instead of just hitting our eastern shoreline the one we are currently experiencing is felt with strong effects in ever community in this country. The one you describe is short term and the one we are fighting is destroying the life blood of America.

Willyex - Welcome to ALIPAC.

Loneprotestor - Excellent answer. Funny how a weather-related natural disaster can actually seem minor when compared to the 30-years-long, man-made, government-sanctioned disaster of the illegal invasion and cultural occupation of a sovereign nation.

Is the invasion an example of what the Obama administration means when they use their new PC term "man-made disaster"? It sure seems to fit that term.

I looked it up and found out that the source of the question is an article about Cumbre Viejo a volcano in the Canary Islands. This is something a long way in the future and there is also a theory that Mount Ranier will expolode and send ash and lava down on Seattle at some point but the things to worry about right now are disasters facing us in the present like the threat of amnesty which could happen within the next two years.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/ ... 30354.html

Volcano could trigger tsunami disaster for New York
August 10, 2004

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A collapsing volcano could trigger a vast tidal wave capable of wiping New York, Washington and Miami off the map, warn geologists.

They also fear southern England could be hit.

Geologists are concerned that an unstable flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is in danger of sliding into the sea.

If shaken loose by a volcanic eruption, the huge slab of rock would send a tsunami more than 150 metres high racing across the Atlantic at the speed of a jumbo jet.

Within three hours, the wave would swamp the west coast of Africa, within five hours it would reach southern England and within 12 it would hit America's east coast.

New York, Washington, Boston and Miami would be hit by successive waves abound 20 metres high. Tens of millions of people could die.

Although the volcano could erupt any day - it has been dormant since 1971 but tends to erupt every 20 to 200 years - funding to British scientists investigating the threat has been stopped.

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Professor Bill McGuire, of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre at University College London, said close monitoring might give two weeks warning of the disaster.

But Spanish funding for a monitoring project dried up several years ago.

The two or three seismographs left to pick up signs of movement in the rock were not capable of detecting an approaching eruption weeks in advance. "What we need now is an integrated volcanic monitoring set up to give maximum warning of a coming eruption," said Prof McGuire.

Cumbre Vieja is the most active volcano on the Canaries. Before their funding ended, the British team calculated that it was sliding towards the sea at a rate of one centimetre per year, but that a big eruption could send the entire flank crashing down.

The wave from the landslide would spread out in a crescent, striking the west African coast with a wall of water more than 300ft high in two to three hours.

Its northern side would also brush against Europe. Within three to four hours, a 33ft high wave would smash into the south coast of England, causing immense damage.

After travelling 4,000 miles the wave would be lower and wider by the time it reached America, but still be between 66ft and 164ft high.

* Doomsday asteroids will cease to be a threat within 30 years, according to Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool's John Moores University. Scientists were discovering asteroids so quickly that the chances of one hitting the Earth without warning were becoming minute, he said yesterday.

The Telegraph, London

There is a reason that the Spaniards stopped funding it they decided it was not likely to be an immidiate problem