Surf's up! Mag 9 tsunami animation

[Taro Toporific]

[kimpatsukun]

I remember reading about the discovery of a MEGA tsunami, which I happen to think is one hell of a cool name, especially for wrestling champions. Anyway, minerals and rocks were found on the east coast of the US that could only of originated from southern europe.

It was later suggested that a landslide in the Canary islands had caused a mega tsunami that travelled the atlantic and flattened the east coast. There was a report by a Norwegian fisherman who survived a tsunami that a landslide caused a huge wave to be created, which picked up him and his boat and dumped him some 500m up the hill.

I also read that they expect a possible landslide to occur in the Hawaiian islands. It is calculated that the generated mega tsunami would really do some damage to the west coast of the US!



Run boy run.....

[kurohinge1]

Loosely related but worth thinking about next time you consider a cruise ...

Long thought to be a myth, freak waves as high as 10-storey buildings are far more common than previously thought, the European Space Agency has found.

Severe weather has been responsible for the sinking of more than 200 supertankers and container ships over the past two decades, and rogue waves are believed to be the main cause, the agency said.

Three weeks of imaging data by the agency's satellites from early 2001 showed more than 10 individual giant waves around the globe of more than 25 metres in height. Previously, scientists believed that such large waves occurred only once every 10,000 years ...

... In February 1995, the QE2 encountered a 29-metre rogue wave in the North Atlantic that Captain Ronald Warwick described as "a great wall of water - it looked as if we were going into the White Cliffs of Dover", the agency said.

And in the week between February and March 2001, two tourist cruisers, the Bremen and the Caledonian Star, had their bridge windows smashed by 30-metre rogue waves in the South Atlantic. The Bremen was left drifting without navigation or propulsion for some hours ...

Reuters

[Taro Toporific]

....a MEGA tsunamimi
Run boy run.....

When playing tourist in Japan, you are required by law to visit Daibutsu of Kamakura. It always feels realy freaky to be staring at the Big Buddha high on the side of mountain overlooking the ocean waaaaaaay off in the distance and then reading:

The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a bronze statue of Amida Buddha was cast in 1,252 AD and originally located inside a large temple hall. However, the temple buildings were washed away by a tsunami tidal wave in the end of the 15th century, and since then the Buddha stands in the open air.

[kansaiboy]

hopefully i have will my sponge by this time.... can u believe i am stuck at home posting when there is 9ft wave breaking in Gobo....arrrggghhhh.