{"id":2006,"date":"2025-05-22T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivedrab-rabbit-880884.hostingersite.com\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2025-05-22T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:01:57","slug":"experts-warn-1000ft-mega-tsunami-could-slam-into-us-coast-is-your-hometown-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn 1,000ft Mega Tsunami Could Slam Into Us Coast \u2014 Is Your Hometown In Danger?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dhijangakosova.com\/author\/hoxhaarbnor4gmail-com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine hundreds of miles per hour as a wall of water, up to a third of a mile high, roars across the ocean. It is nearly impossible to comprehend the magnitude of a mega-tsunami\u2019s destructive power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mega-tsunamis, as opposed to ordinary tsunamis brought on by earthquakes, are frequently brought on by massive landslides or erupting volcanoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of their closeness to landslide-prone areas, earthquake zones, and unstable volcanoes, three US regions\u2014Alaska, Hawaii, and the West Coast\u2014are at risk of mega-tsunamis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists continue to analyse the traces left by a mile-high mega-tsunami that was caused by an asteroid strike millions of years ago during the dinosaur era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma is one terrifying possibility that might collapse into the Atlantic today and unleash a mega-tsunami towards the US East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Netflix series \u2018La Palma\u2019 vividly depicts this situation, with a family on vacation while scientists find evidence of a volcanic explosion that can cause a devastating tsunami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Pixabay<br>This concept originates from a 2001 study by Dr. Simon Day and Steven Ward, who cautioned that a collapse of the west flank of Cumbre Vieja may cause a huge wave to form by dropping up to 120 cubic miles of rock into the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to their analysis, this wave might harm coastal communities by starting at 2,000 feet high close to the volcano and reaching up to 150 feet when it strikes the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine hundreds of miles per hour as a wall of water, up to a third of a mile high, roars across the ocean. It is nearly impossible to comprehend the magnitude of a mega-tsunami\u2019s destructive power. Mega-tsunamis, as opposed to ordinary tsunamis brought on by earthquakes, are frequently brought on by massive landslides or erupting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/?p=2006\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Experts Warn 1,000ft Mega Tsunami Could Slam Into Us Coast \u2014 Is Your Hometown In Danger?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interesting17hr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}