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titanicsteve
First Class Passenger
Member # 2142

posted 08-29-2001 02:18 PM

Does anyone know about this mega tidal wave that will be happening in 23 - 230 years away? Ahhhhhhhhhh hope I am not around for it!! Thought I would tell you all because ships, sea, water, waves etc! Bet no one can make a 'stabilised' ship prepared for that! Lifebotas no good in this situ!

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 08-29-2001 03:17 PM

Hi.."tidal waves" which aren't, and should properly be called Tsunamis only become large when they reach shoaling waters on a coastline. At sea they may be 1 to 2 feet high so you wouldn't even notice one going by. They travel at high speeds up to 600Kts and it is the slowing down caused by the drag of the seafloor that makes them grow higher.
Saw the article...very dramatic.
...peter

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recab
First Class Passenger
Member # 1677

posted 08-30-2001 03:42 AM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gohaze:
[QB]Hi.."tidal waves" which aren't, and should properly be called Tsunamis only become large when they reach shoaling waters on a coastline.

You´re so right gohaze and on top of that, you´re on the "right side" of the continent in Vancouver!

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Marcia
First Class Passenger
Member # 1198

posted 08-30-2001 09:15 AM

Now you have made me curious. What article are you referring to? Would love to see or read it.

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 08-30-2001 10:58 AM

It was in Wednesday's London Telegraph. By a Dr.Day at the Hazard research centre at University College, London.
It's a bit sensational like so many of these 'learned' articles but at least he got the publicity he wanted.
Amof...the Pacific is where most Tsunamis occur because it's ringed by volcanoes and subject to earthquakes, and the warning centre is in Hawaii, which gets them from all directions.
We had one hit the West Coast back in the 60's and it did a lot of damage to Port Alberni which is at the top end of a sort of funnel shaped inlet...that caused the wave height.
John Maxtone-Graham in his 'Liners to the Sun' has a very good description of the Rotterdam being hit by a Tsunami when a mile outside Casablanca in Jan. 1976. The Captain estimated the wave height at 100ft and she rolled over 40 degrees. fortunately it was early in the morning and most people were still in bed.
...peter

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fondaenergy
First Class Passenger
Member # 1641

posted 08-30-2001 11:59 AM

There was another article this week in various British newspapers. There is a Canary-Island volcano, Cumbre Vieja, which can split. This will cause a massive tidal wave around the Atlantic Ocean. We, in Florida, will have 9 hours to get out. I live 1/2 mile from the ocean. It is also supposed to flood NYC.

We have been in the Canaries. They are extremely volcanic, and there are other possibilities for erruptions. These will probably occur sometime, but I'm not worried about the near future.

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Cunardcoll
First Class Passenger
Member # 1226

posted 08-30-2001 01:35 PM

Here in Belgium it was on the news and in the papers , but the information is NOT totally correct , the best information you can see on the National Geographic Channel

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titanicsteve
First Class Passenger
Member # 2142

posted 08-30-2001 03:52 PM

I got that story on www.irishnews.com!

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 08-31-2001 01:18 PM

Hi...glad to see my suspicious mind is'nt alone. In this morning's London Times there is an article which at the end says " Dr. Day let slip that his tsunami is 'unlikely to happen in the next century' and that more research is needed. When I hear that dread phrase I see an academic with a grant application burning a hole in his pocket. Perhaps he should redirect his attention to the hazards of chicken wings.....
And..."I notice that a team of geologists from Southampton University also visited the Canary Islands to measure volcanic activity. They traced past landslides over a MILLION years. They calculated the frequency at one slide, not necessarily catastrophic, every 50,000 years. THAT, of course, won no headlines.
No Tsunami, no story, NO GRANT."
Q.E.D.
.....peter

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