Earth quakes & tidal waves kill thousands in SE Asia

[CougTek]

Found more about this here. Some of the numbers differ (I wrote the previous post out of memory), but the main idea remains. Shudder.

 

[Clocker]

Coug- Where you watching Discovery Channel like I was?

Every other show is about tsunami now... :eekers:

C

 

[Pradeep]

Pradeep, I'm happy to read that your guests survived the catastrophe through some quick and clever thinking from your parents. Poor German chef, but I'm not surprised. They have this fascination with adventure that draws them like fish to bait. In this case (as many) it proved fatal (ever hear of the occasional German tourist being killed by a crocodile in Australia?).

I heard further details yesterday, apparently some of the guests were actually hitting the staff, who were trying to drag them to safety. Tho the German embassy is all lovey dovey with us now

 

[jtr1962]

According to a Swiss lab where they have a small tsunami simulator, the La Palma landslide should create a tiny wave of an initial height of about 630 feet and crawling West at the snail-like speed of 700Km/h, therefore reaching the East coast of United States around 8 hours later.

Actually Coug, that was 630 meters for the initial wave height, or over 2000 feet.

We're roughly 8 miles from water here so hopefully we should be OK but my brother just bought a house on the Rockaway Peninsula and he's about 70 feet off Jamaica Bay. At least about 1 mile of island is shielding him from the Atlantic Ocean. We'll have eight hours warning though, so he should have enough time to get together his most important stuff and his cat, and come by us.

I hate to think what Manhattan will look like, although looking at a map it seems that the Rockaways, Staten Island and south Brooklyn will get the brunt of this. Brooklyn should shield Manhattan from the waves themselves, but when the wave hits the water level in the East and Hudson Rivers will undoubtably rise enough to flood large areas of Manhattan. It'll be a big mess but hopefully we can get enough people away from low-lying areas to minimize loss of life.

 

[Fushigi]

Coug - I saw that as well, although I missed the first half or so of the show. Interesting stuff. Makes me glad I live in the midwest, where we have more practical things to worry about, like tornadoes. :lol:

Tea/Doug - The Red Cross is saying 92% of all tsunami donations are being used for the aid & the other 8% is being used to cover transportation costs. Basically they're doing a full pass-through of the donations straight to relief. They got an A+ rating from Charity Watch, which rated the various major charities that are managing tsunami relief funds.

 

[CougTek]

Actually Coug, that was 630 meters for the initial wave height, or over 2000 feet.

That's what I thought I heard, but the number was so ridiculously high that I figured it must have been a mistake.

We're roughly 8 miles from water here so hopefully we should be OK...

Think again. The wave should be 400 kilometers long. While it won't penetrate that far inland because it will decelerate a lot when it'll hit the coast, be sure that it will at least wash out several tens of kilometers anyway. And since New York is not much above sea level, there won't be a lot of resistance to the progression of the water wall. It should go quite far in your area.

 

[CougTek]

Found more about this here. Some of the numbers differ (I wrote the previous post out of memory), but the main idea remains. Shudder.

Apparently, that was bullshit. We'll see who's right when the volcano triggers another landslide.