Drone footage showed lava from Spanish Canary Islands’ La Palma volcano swallowing a swimming pool and houses on its way to the coast https://t.co/sIO1gcoOzO pic.twitter.com/gB3duLGVuQ
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And…. it’s gone.
Too bad there isn’t a volcano in Northern Virginia… Chip
Vulcānus non dignatur tantis coire malis infernis
Imagine that you are a full grown adult about to invest in the single largest purchase of your life and the place where you will raise your family and make all the memories that make up a lifetime.
Do you choose;
A) The side of a volcano
B) A floodplain on the banks of a river
C) The edge of a seaside cliff
D) On a fault line
E) A vibrant neighborhood in a densely populated urban area
F) Anywhere else on Earth
As we look for said place, I noticed that all of the places not located between A and D are quite a bit more affordable. Isn’t that curious?
I had chosen E (less than a mile away) while living in my (ex-)girlfriend’s house,
and I know folks who chose G “on top of a ‘recultivated’ garbage dump site.”
Imagine you live on a very small island surrounded by a gigantic ocean ….. why would you need a fucken swimming pool?
Those volcanos release a lot of toxic fumes. I hope all the people are double-masked. And for fuksake, keep a reasonable Social Distance from the lava!
People at least tourists don’t respect lava. I remember tourists walking right up to the edge of the lava fow on the big island while wearing thongs/zoris/shower shoes.
I’ve stood less than a meter away — closer than that, you might ignite — from moving lava coming from Kilauea. I say stood: if turning to one’s side and covering one’s forehead with an arm counts as such. Because there’s no way you can take a face full of that radiating heat. I had on reinforced rubber sandals, as you cannot walk barefoot near flows, either, for the ground around them fuses to black glass. The college group I was with was plenty prepared.
I had what looked like sunburn on the half of my body I turned to the lava for days after; all the moisture from my skin had been baked. Still, that’s a story not many have to tell, so it’s a definite for-life memory.
As for people stupidly building on the sides of volcanoes, consider that’s all Hawaii is, a chain of volcanoes, some still active. It could all go BOOM at any time. But I’d do anything to live there, or maybe not now.
You can’t be sure of the pH in the ocean.
Where’s the 100′ tsunami thats gonna wip out the US East coast……
Guaranteed the MSM will tell nobody it’s coming, while taking their own helicopters to safety.
It’s hard not to picture a possible massive landslidee-caused tsunami rushing towards the US coast at 600+mph wiping out everything up to 20 miles inland. It would certainly provide a window of opportunity for change.
I believe ZH had that prediction last week…….saw post here on TBP
That has been postulated due the last 15 years. I believe NaziGeo had a special on that around 2006. Southern flank of the island has a large fault line across the island where the south flank will slide into the ocean at some point in the next 100k years. Just like Yellowstone blows its top every 600k years and the east flank of Kilauea plops off whenever the panic scientists feel appropriate to scare the shit out of idiots.
It will happen at some point a d there aint shit anyone can do except haul as as far inland as possible and hope you dont get cornholed by a mega-tsunami.
The Fukushima quake in 2011 was a great example of heeding warnings. Those that didnt got fucked and nature once again put humanity in check.
ZFG, out.
P.S. Florida aint surfing any tsunami out lol.
The Krakatoa Eruption
The most notable eruptions of Krakatoa culminated in a series of massive explosions over 26–27 August 1883, which were among the most violent volcanic events in recorded history.
With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6,[2] the eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT (840 PJ)—about 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 kt) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated at 50 Mt.
The 1883 eruption ejected approximately 25 km3 (6 cubic miles) of rock.[3] The cataclysmic explosion was heard 3,600 km (2,200 mi) away in Alice Springs, Australia, and on the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,780 km (2,970 mi) to the west.[4]
According to the official records of the Dutch East Indies colony, 165 villages and towns were destroyed near Krakatoa, and 132 were seriously damaged. At least 36,417 people died, and many more thousands were injured, mostly from the tsunamis that followed the explosion. The eruption destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatoa.
On 27 August, a series of four huge explosions almost destroyed the island. The explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,110 km (1,930 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia, and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 km (3,000 mi) away.[4] The pressure wave from the third and most violent explosion was recorded on barographs around the world.[27] Several barographs recorded the wave seven times over the course of five days: four times with the wave travelling away from the volcano to its antipodal point, and three times travelling back to the volcano;[25]: 63 the wave rounded the globe three and a half times. Ash was propelled to a height of 80 km (260,000 ft). The sound of the eruption was so loud it was reported that if anyone was within 16 kilometres (10 mi), they would have gone deaf.
Nobody is expecting this to be a spectacular eruption, but the fault across the island, combined with the significant geology of the two halves, has some predicting a collapse of the southern half of the island, resulting in an underwater landslide that will create the largest tsunami ever recorded that will hit everything along the Atlantic ocean.
Yeah, I remember when Guam capsized because one half fell over…
Up yours, Greta.
Reminds me of taking a dump after eating spicy mexi food.
A tsunami is made up of a series of travelling ocean waves of extremely long wavelength. They are triggered by large disturbances such as earthquakes, undersea volcanic eruptions or deep sea landslides.
Effects of tsunami Tsunami are a threat to people and property in coastal and low-lying estuarine areas. The waves travel quickly, rapidly flooding and damaging coastal communities, picking up debris as they go. A fast moving wave over 10 metres high can quickly destroy homes and communities. Tsunami also create seiching in harbours and confined estuaries.
Tsunami waves can travel inland along river beds as continuous single standing waves. This puts smaller inland communities at risk and contaminates rivers with saltwater.
A tsunami can threaten ‘lifeline’ services such as water, power, telecommunication and transportation networks. Find out more about managing Lifelines to deal with unexpected emergencies or natural hazards.
Giant wave devastation feared for U.S. East Coast
An immense wave could one day wreak havoc on the eastern seaboard of the US and elsewhere around the Atlantic.
“It’s entirely possible you’d see 50-metre waves coming ashore in Florida, New York, Boston, all the way up to Greenland, and in some cases reaching up to 10 km inland” Dr Simon Day.
Scientists say a volcanic eruption on the Canary Islands, off West Africa, could trigger a vast undersea landslide.
This would set off a tsunami wave capable of inundating coastal regions thousands of kilometres away.
The warning comes from Dr Steven Ward, of the University of California, US, and Dr Simon Day, of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, UK.
Writing in Geophysical Research Letters, they refine an earlier estimate of the likely consequences of the collapse of the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries.
They believe a build-up of groundwater could destabilise a block of rock up to 500 cubic km in size, which could break off in a future eruption, rushing into the sea at up to 350 km an hour (220 mph).
The energy released by the collapse would equal the entire US electricity consumption for six months.
The dome of water it caused would be 900 metres (2,950 feet) high, and the resulting tsunami, higher than any in recorded history, would travel outwards, reaching speeds of 800 km an hour (500 mph).
Waves 100 m (330 ft) from crest to trough would strike the African coast, while north-eastwards they would affect Spain, Portugal and France, and could still be approaching 12 m (40 ft) when they hit the UK.
That is almost three times the maximum recorded after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
Dr Day said the waves striking the UK coast would not penetrate more than two or three kilometres inland.
But he told BBC News Online: “Weird things happen when tsunamis enter harbours or estuaries.
“If those resonate at a certain frequency that may substantially increase the damage.”
Across the Atlantic the damage would be far worse, with wave heights of more than 40 m (130 ft) expected in northern Brazil.
Dr Day said: “It’s entirely possible you’d see 50-m waves coming ashore in Florida, New York, Boston, all the way up to Greenland, and in some cases reaching up to 10 km inland.
“And that would be about nine hours or more after the initial collapse.”
The ensuing economic losses would probably be in trillions of dollars, even if there were enough warning to evacuate threatened areas and avoid massive loss of human life.
If the speed of the landslide proved to be 150 metres per second (490 feet per second), not the 100 m/s (330 ft/s) assumed, that could double the height of the waves reaching the US.
But Dr Day had some reassurance on the probable timescale of the catastrophe.
He said a collapse was unlikely this century, and perhaps for many centuries.
It could take several eruptions to destabilize the volcano enough to dislodge the western flank, and collapse would occur only after days or weeks of seismic activity.
He told BBC News Online: “We think you have to see some evidence of subterranean movement before there’s a risk of collapse.
“The fact that we aren’t seeing any movement gives us a lot of confidence Cumbre Vieja won’t collapse spontaneously.
“But we’ve found that eruptions do tend to come in clusters. And there’ve been two in the recent past.”
Dr Simon Day: This may not happen for many centuries
(Hmmm….I vote for the 3 Gorges Dam to go first…just saying)
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Would it obliterate DC?
WE can hope! and pray?
But they will get out, and guaranteed they will make us pay for rebuilding.
They don’t look nearly that dramatic in real life.
The tiny ones that we normally see, but what about one 125 feet high or more traveling at 600+ mph?
Nobody can go over the brooklyn bridge that fast, not even Mr Entropy
Continuous live shot of the volcano.
Wow all that organic matter baked right under the new crust.
Someday, that will be a coal mine in the canaries…
Wonder if hiring a dozer and building a 10ft high levy would work? If you can’t stop it perhaps you could redirect it