Mega Tsunami Show on Discovery Channel

[Jim Cantore]

investigation on a 300 foot wave, very intresting.

[Jim Cantore]

Actully a 492 foot wave, unknown cause defanitly not an earthquake

[sunny]

This is interesting - thanks. Mega Flood is to follow - London I think they said.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Scary stuff
I saw something a few years ago on Discovery about a tsunami that
hit Hawaii centuries ago with a height above 100 ft...but i cannot
remember the details of the event as featured during the program.

[HurricaneHunter914]

Wasn't the highest Tsunami wave over 1,000 ft. high. I got it out of the Guiness Book of Records.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Wasn't the highest Tsunami wave over 1,000 ft. high. I got it out of the Guiness Book of Records.

Yes that's the one that was on that show years ago... I don't know
whether it struck land or the impacts but I saw a show in
my distant elementary school years about a 1000 ft tsunami.

[LSU2001]

I think that was the Lityua bay Alaska wave caused by a massive landslide.

The rockslide occurred along the eastern wall of the Gilbert Inlet (see figure above). The mass of rock striking the surface of the bay created a giant splash, which sent water surging to a height of 1720 feet

http://tinyurl.com/4ewn8

[LSU2001]

La Palma in the Canaries is one scary place. It may be a time bomb waiting to explode and wipe out the east coast in a mega-tsunami.

Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world. Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been struck by a mega-tsunami.

http://tinyurl.com/nuev

[Jim Cantore]

I think that was the Lityua bay Alaska wave caused by a massive landslide.

was that the one triggered by the 9.3-5 earthquake?

["Ice"]

There was a program on before this that had to do with Hurricanes.They showed footage and how a Dome Home was built. I didn't catch the name of it

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

I think that was the Lityua bay Alaska wave caused by a massive landslide.

was that the one triggered by the 9.3-5 earthquake?

No, it was just a massive landslide. Lituya Bay might better be described as a long, narrow fjord. An earthquake in 1958 (not the massive 9.2 Good Friday earthquake of 1964) triggered a landslide at the head of the bay that basically just dropped enormous amounts of rock into the water...megatsunamis usually need to be caused by displacement from above, not below...try it out in a bathtub.



I think you can see the treeline showing how high the tsunami was. 1,720 feet.

[Jim Cantore]

try it out in a bathtub

I have tried laying my hand in a bottom and pushing it upward to simulate an earthquake, and tried dropping some rocks in there.

[SouthFloridawx]

La Palma in the Canaries is one scary place. It may be a time bomb waiting to explode and wipe out the east coast in a mega-tsunami.

Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world. Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been struck by a mega-tsunami.
http://tinyurl.com/nuev

Well when that shelf does fall make sure they give us a call and let us know that it happend so we can get the uh uh out of coast.

[MiamiensisWx]

If the eastern U.S. tsunami happens, how would it be affected if a magnitude 8.0 earthquake preceeded the collapse of part of La Palma?

[terstorm1012]

The waves would propagate across the Atlantic in about 4-5 hours. I've seen varying estimates on its postulated height when it reaches the Coastline from 18 feet to 70 feet.

The link lsu provided shows the scenario of what could occur if this happens. First Newfoundland, then Nova Scotia, then Boston, then New York, then the tidewater and Mid-Atlantic bays, then Miami and finally the Caribbean.

There was a BBC produced show called "The End of the World" that depicted this scenario, along with others like an asteroid striking Berlin and the bird flu paralyzing London. I saw it on the Science Channel.

[CHRISTY]

incredble wave my godness!!!!