East coast americans, are you scared?

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:46 am

Came across this link the other day, old news to some but it was new to me

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/TSUNAMI.html

How do you people on the east coast feel about this? I personally would be considering moving. Do you trust your government to give you enough warning? Do you believe they will get enough warning to be able to pass it on to you?

Also where is the safest place in the world to live (probably one for Spot)

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:57 am

buttercup;636392 wrote: Came across this link the other day, old news to some but it was new to me

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/TSUNAMI.html

How do you people on the east coast feel about this? I personally would be considering moving. Do you trust your government to give you enough warning? Do you believe they will get enough warning to be able to pass it on to you?

Also where is the safest place in the world to live (probably one for Spot)

eeek my girl lives there

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:51 am

buttercup;636392 wrote: Came across this link the other day, old news to some but it was new to me

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/TSUNAMI.html

http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~ward/papers/La_Palma_grl.pdf

Etc.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:31 am

Thank you for that most informative post Bill.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:10 am

buttercup;636426 wrote: Thank you for that most informative post Bill.

Quite nice. I liked the pictures.

Post by **spot** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:40 am

I think Simon Day's panic-mongering. He says, for example, "Prudence dictates that the lack of abundant wave-caused signatures associated with collapses of oceanic island volcanoes be viewed as more a function of scanty preservation than evidence that these events do not produce tsunami" but there are alternative explanations for that. There was, for example, an earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964 with wave sizes of 67 metres, and that dissipated rather than spread once it reached significant ocean depth. Alaska's Lituya Bay landslip in 1958 had a wave around 525 metres and that dissipated too, it didn't propagate across the Pacific and do damage elsewhere. The Atlantic is very wide and very deep, it's not like the Indian Ocean.

If you're on the East Coast and you hear that "the tsunami's on it's way from the Canaries", go westward inland ten miles. Even in Florida that'll keep your feet dry. You can walk it in three hours, and it'll be on the news somewhere within minutes of the landslip.

Sign up at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/ with the Earthquake Notification Service of the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program, they'll email you within minutes of every significant event worldwide. They might even have a pager option, I'm not sure.

"Where is the safest place in the world to live"? In the Highlands straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan, though it might depend on what you mean by "safe". You'll be protected there from both tsunamis and from the next Pole Shift which, according to my calculations, should take place eight days from now.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:59 am

spot;636442 wrote:

"Where is the safest place in the world to live"? In the Highlands straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan, though it might depend on what you mean by "safe". You'll be protected there from both tsunamis and from the next Pole Shift which, according to my calculations, should take place eight days from now.

Just have to worry about famine, drought & locusts then, great :-3

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:38 am

spot;636442 wrote: I think Simon Day's panic-mongering. He says, for example, "Prudence dictates that the lack of abundant wave-caused signatures associated with collapses of oceanic island volcanoes be viewed as more a function of scanty preservation than evidence that these events do not produce tsunami" but there are alternative explanations for that. There was, for example, an earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964 with wave sizes of 67 metres, and that dissipated rather than spread once it reached significant ocean depth. Alaska's Lituya Bay landslip in 1958 had a wave around 525 metres and that dissipated too, it didn't propagate across the Pacific and do damage elsewhere. The Atlantic is very wide and very deep, it's not like the Indian Ocean.

If you're on the East Coast and you hear that "the tsunami's on it's way from the Canaries", go westward inland ten miles. Even in Florida that'll keep your feet dry. You can walk it in three hours, and it'll be on the news somewhere within minutes of the landslip.

Sign up at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/ens/ with the Earthquake Notification Service of the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program, they'll email you within minutes of every significant event worldwide. They might even have a pager option, I'm not sure.

"Where is the safest place in the world to live"? In the Highlands straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and the Sudan, though it might depend on what you mean by "safe". You'll be protected there from both tsunamis and from the next Pole Shift which, according to my calculations, should take place eight days from now.
All flights to Somalia in the next week are fully booked. :-3

DelicateDominatrix · Post by **DelicateDominatrix** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:40 am

Well I live in New York,not the big city,but yea that would kinda suck lol

Not scared to be honest.hmm maybe I should be lol

Post by **spot** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:15 am

DelicateDominatrix;636470 wrote: Well I live in New York,not the big city,but yea that would kinda suck lol

Not scared to be honest.hmm maybe I should be lol

Where does walking westward take you? New Jersey? Stay home indoors and ride out the wave, it'll be safer.

zinkyusa · Post by **zinkyusa** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:26 am

should be some excellent surfing though..

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:51 pm

A I am typing this, the rain is pouring outside and the wind is blowing. I hear thunder in the distance. I live 50 miles from the east coast. This is my home...so I'm staying. No, I'm not worried.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:15 pm

I'm in from the Ocean a bit...but maybe not enough...or maybe people would evacuate to where I am?? I have enough to worry about right now...but thanks for the interesting information...

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:33 pm

I'm sure glad the article said that the UK was protected by the other islands.

A twenty five meter rise would take it to central Northhamptonshire and that's within twenty mile of half way across the country!

Post by **spot** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:37 pm

Bryn Mawr;637078 wrote: I'm sure glad the article said that the UK was protected by the other islands.

A twenty five meter rise would take it to central Northhamptonshire and that's within twenty mile of half way across the country!Hah. I've got a sixty metre cliff face between me and the estuary, that'll hold it. You'd not catch me living down the hill, they don't call it Canons Marsh for nothing.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:39 pm

spot;637079 wrote: Hah. I've got a sixty metre cliff face between me and the estuary, that'll hold it. You'd not catch me living down the hill, they don't call it Canons Marsh for nothing.

I'd defy any wave to get me In Leicestershire but here in London all it would take would be a strong gust of wind!