{"id":4425,"date":"2012-11-30T23:09:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2012-11-30T23:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T12:09:49","slug":"east-coast-usa-has-tsunami-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/11\/east-coast-usa-has-tsunami-threats-4425.html","title":{"rendered":"East Coast USA Has Tsunami Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest tsunami threats to the USA are on the West Coast. But that doesn’t mean the East Coast is immune. And to make things worse, because they aren’t expecting a tsunami, they won’t be prepared when one arrives.<\/p>\n

Cumbre Vieja (Canary Islands) – a 2001 study suggested this series of events could send a 70-foot (21 m) wave crashing into the East Coast, but other studies since have decided it would only reach a height of a couple of feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The biggest risk is from a submarine landslide near the U.S. coast. The resultant tsunami would dissipate quite quickly, so the landslide would need to be near a populated area. Experts are still in the process of mapping where these risks lie.<\/p>\n
Completely missing from the Mother Nature Network<\/em> article<\/a> is the risk from asteroids and comets. While they don’t happen as frequently as earthquakes and landslides, the tsunamis they can generate are massively larger and more lethal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The biggest tsunami threats to the USA are on the West Coast. But that doesn’t mean the East Coast is immune. And to make things worse, because they aren’t expecting a tsunami, they won’t be prepared when one arrives.<\/p>\n
To be fair, most of the threats are negligible:<\/p>\n
Puerto Rico Trench – it is a subduction zone, but it is the Caribbean that is at risk, not the USA
\nAzores-Gibraltar Transform Fault, off the coast of Portugal – it destroyed Lisbon in 1755, but the USA wasn’t affected
\nCumbre Vieja (Canary Islands) – a 2001 study suggested this series of events could send a 70-foot (21 m) wave crashing into the East Coast, but other studies since have decided it would only reach a height of a couple of feet<\/p>\n
The biggest risk is from a submarine landslide near the U.S. coast. The resultant tsunami would dissipate quite quickly, so the landslide would need to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}