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Tsunami Could Someday Wipe Out US East Coast

Posted by Hemos on from the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am dept.

TheSync writes "The West Coast might not have all the fun anymore. Woods Hole scientists have discovered a potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. Get your water-wings ready! "

10 comments

  1. Dateline: Redmond, WA by 3waygeek · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates, upon hearing this news, is reportedly trying to obtain a thermonuclear device to detonate in the slide area, which will cause a tsunami which will devastate much of the US East Coast, including Raleigh-Durham, NC and Washington, DC.

    By this, Gates hopes to kill two birds with one stone, destroying the US Department of Justice and RedHat, a leading provider of the Linux operating system.

  2. surfers of the apocalypse! by Daala42 · · Score: 1

    wow. sounds like it's time to wax up the surfboard & head over to the east coast to catch the waves!
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  3. why not the west coast? by ChristTrekker · · Score: 1

    Specifically, Puget Sound? Too bad Redmond is behind Lynnwood. Oh well, nothing valuable in Lynnwood anyway. Let 'er rip!

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  4. I live on the Elizabeth River by The+Queen · · Score: 1

    This is not cool. Joke all you want, but I am quite concerned...I've dealt with flooded basements from Nor-easters but something like this is just icky.


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  5. doesn't sound THAT bad by nomadic · · Score: 1

    I can't access the article (*cough*vbscript error*cough*) but the abstract doesn't make it sound too grim. So we'll get a little flooding, we've gotten it before. And maybe it will compel designers/architects/engineers to put a little ecological thought into home design and construction for a change.

    1. Re:doesn't sound THAT bad by unitron · · Score: 1

      I live in Eastern N.C. where we've already experienced "a little flooding" last fall. If you'd been here for that you'd be taking a very different tone.

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  6. I'm a Noreaster by georgeha · · Score: 1

    Rochester, New York, and I'd like to apologize for any basement flooding my yankee brethren have caused in the past.

    George

  7. Could you avert a tsunami with lots of little ones by georgeha · · Score: 1

    I wonder if you could set off small explosives to stablilize that slope, generating lots of little tsunamis at low tide, but averting a catastrophic one. Start here for more info. George

  8. Re:Tsunami could Someday Wipe Out US East Coast by Yet+Another+Smith · · Score: 1

    Its not like Hurricanes (with associated storm surge and winds) don't already clean up bits of the coast from time to time. Don't build on a barrier island, because the barrier is what gets hit. Duuuhhhh.

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  9. There's still hope! YES! by silicon_synapse · · Score: 1

    I just might get that ocean-front property in Arizona after all! Does that mean I get the Golden Gate too?


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