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Cumbre Vieja. USA ON TSUNAMI ALERT!. What is a tsunami?. A tsunami is a wave produced by a disturbance that displaces a large mass of water - usually a result of geologic (under the ground) activities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, underwater landslides, or meteor strikes.
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Cumbre Vieja USA ON TSUNAMI ALERT!
What is a tsunami? A tsunami is a wave produced by a disturbance that displaces a large mass of water - usually a result of geologic (under the ground) activities such as earthquakes, volcanoes, underwater landslides, or meteor strikes. After such a disturbance, displaced water travels outward from its site of origin as a series of unusually large waves at great speeds.
What causes Tsunami? - 2. Landslide into the sea
How big can tsunamis get? In general, most tsunamis range from several centimeters to tens of meters. Sometimes they are only centimetres high and hardly noticeable. On the other extreme is the mega-tsunami, which can reach heights of several hundred meters.
Cumbre Vieja The Canary Islands are a volcanic island-arc chain located in the Atlantic Ocean. La Palma is one of the most volcanically active of the islands. It has 3 large volcanoes on it. It is home to the most active volcano of the Canaries, Cumbre Vieja, which last erupted in 1949 and 1971. It is here that there is a possible ticking time bomb - large tsunami creation in the Atlantic Ocean.
Cumbre Vieja The west side (flank) of the Cumbre Vieja volcano may experience catastrophic failure during a future eruption, resulting in a landslide of a block of 15-20 km in width and 15-25 km long into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Geographers suggests that such an event could trigger a massive mega-tsunami hundreds of meters in height that would travel quickly in westerly direction across the Atlantic ocean. Within 9 hours, an estimated 10-25 meter wave could reach the US east coast.