Cumbre Vieja volcano...

With all the recent earthquake and volcano threads, whats your views that a sudden jolt
might cause the la palma volcono to create this 300 storey tsunami that will race towards the american coastline...be interesting to know what your thoughts are..

reply to post by union_jack


Huh? 300 story Tsunami??? Which coast?
I don't like the sound of that...

La Palma Tsunami
The mega-hyped tidal wave story

www.lapalma-tsunami.com...

Story from 2004.

I saw a documentary on TV a while back about this. Scary, maybe, maybe not.

More info from

DISASTER PAGES
of
Dr. GEORGE PARARAS-CARAYANNIS

www.drgeorgepc.com...

Greetings Union_Jack

Many people have this idea based on the work of Dr Simon Day, but he did the dicovery television programme without doing his homework first.

Certainly the island could collapse but not as shown on the TV and believed ever since in urban myth.

The Mega Tsunami programme has been debunked, it used flawed, and made up modelling, positions of faults, historical evidence and extrapolated a 4km fault to 25 KM!

Many experts in this area of science have not accepted the programme, and the theory never went to peer review before the programme was Aired!

The report states:
- 'La Palma has a very stable construction.'
- 'The island has an abundance of obstacles which would prevent any block from sliding quickly'
- 'Any block would break into pieces'
- They modelled the island, but 'whatever they tried they couldn't generate a significant tsunami'
- they even modelled the island higher and steeper but still couldn't get La Palma to slide into the sea.
- 'the so-called steam-kettle effect was modelled, but simply blew some steam out through the top of the ridge but excerpted no lateral pressure. (Needed by Ward/Day/McGuire to kick-start the rock-slide)'
- 'they calculated that the lateral pressure needed to move half of La Palma would be the equivalent of 600 million jet-fighter engines'
- 'the island might possibly become unstable if the island grows taller, at the current rate that would take at least 10000 years'
- of the BBC Horizon programs claim that 'a huge massive block of rock is just waiting to slide into the sea' they accuse the researchers (Ward/Day/McGuire) of having 'a complete lack of insight into ground mechanics'
- even under the most extreme circumstances they could only create a wave 15cm to 100cm tall at the coast of America
- the Delft researchers join the chorus of scientists who state that Ward/Day/McGuire used an incorrect algorithm to calculate the size of the tsunami.

From a Dutch Research project in response to the Discovery Programme

Also

Here is Real Time Siesmicity at Tenerife, very very quite at the moment


Smithsonian Institute

Yep it will go again, but so will all active volcanoes, but when no one knows, and certainly nothing has happened over the last few months to indicate anything likely now.

When it does the Tsunami will be much smaller than the meme indicates.

Kind regards,

Elf.