What do you get when you Google "megatsunami US East Coast"

[kristopher]

This is the first hit:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/09/010903091755.htm
About " Cumbre Vieja"

Here is the google result for " Cumbre Vieja" + tsunami:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&biw=1278&bih=528&q=+Cumbre+Vieja+tsunami&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=cd823e3c3cc01914

[kestrel91316]

1. Don't remind me. My niece and her fiance are firmly esconced on the east coast of south Florida.

[XemaSab]

2. Your mom?

:shrug:

[kristopher]

5. Why aren't you precious...

[Fledermaus]

3. NUCLEAR JACKPOT!

How many minutes of battery backup? Would it last a day before it explodes? Does their fire system work? Is it up to code?

They want to use this stuff forever....Then it will happen.

[FBaggins]

4. That tsunami would kill millions upon millions of people.

As well as destroy major cities and do many trillions of dollars worth of damage.

But let me guess... You're thinking that the REAL danger is that there might be a reactor in there somewhere.

Right?

[kristopher]

6. Are you of the opinion that the reactors will be a plus in the aftermath?

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/map-power-reactors.html

[FBaggins]

7. Of course they wouldn't be a "plus"

They also wouldn't be a blip on the radar screen of the damage that was done.

Are you seriously arguing that maybe there shouldn't be reactors on the East Coast of the US because someday instead of killing 60 million people... a tsunami might result in 60 million plus tens of thousands more?

[kristopher]

8. Are you seriously saying that building nuclear reactors in a tsunami zone is a good idea?

You can make the claim, but, I don't think it is one that most will find persuasive.

[FBaggins]

9. How are you defining "tsunami zone"?

"a place that doesn't get tsunami, but may get a huge one some time in the next million years" seems a bit extreme.

Should we build homes in asteroid impact zones?

[kristopher]

10. If it weren't for strawman arguments you'd be mute...

You wrote, ""a place that doesn't get tsunami, but may get a huge one some time in the next million years" seems a bit extreme."

The first article at the Google link in the OP reads:

" The collapse will occur during some future eruption after days or weeks of precursory deformation and earthquakes. An effective earthquake monitoring system could provide advanced warning of a likely collapse and allow early emergency management organisations a valuable window of time in which to plan and respond.’

' Eruptions of Cumbre Vieja occur at intervals of decades to a century or so and there may be a number of eruptions before its collapse. Although the year to year probability of a collapse is therefore low, the resulting tsunami would be a major disaster with indirect effects around the world. Cumbre Vieja needs to monitored closely for any signs of impending volcanic activity and for the deformation that would precede collapse.'"

If you think this is a million years off you obviously don't understand the nature of the problem. It is real and could happen next month.

[FBaggins]

11. it "could" happen next month

It could just as easily take a million years.

Or are you one of the guys who thinks that the world is only 6,000 years old?

You share a scientific method with them. :rofl:

An effective earthquake monitoring system could provide advanced warning of a likely collapse and allow early emergency management organisations a valuable window of time in which to plan and respond.’


Lol... you going to evacuate the entire coastline of dozens of countries every time there's an earthquake near a given island? Going to get everyone out of Bermuda... and the Bahamas... and scores of other islands?

And what's you plan for when Yellosstone blows? When the big asteroid hits?