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The tsunami that is being discussed is one from the Canary Islands, which lay on the west side of Africa.
Read here:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/29/tidal.wave/index.html
While there is no indication that it would happen anytime soon, it sure could happen...and volcanos don't always give warnings; landmasses sliding into the ocean don't always give warnings, either.
It's an interesting thing, this potential tsunami...I've known about the possibility for many years, and have done a bit of reading on it. Some people use it as a doomsday/2012 thing, but in all honestly, it could happen today...or in 1000 years.
The solar storm could really disrupt communications and all things electronic; and would have a huge impact on us as humans. Between the cars using electronics to household uses to major utility companies, there isn't much that wouldn't be affected if a super-solar-storm was directed at the planet.
There are some doomsday scenarios about that, which are actually plausible; transformers blowing (and transformers would take a long time to repair/replace, especially w/o electricity), food supplies disrupted (because no gas could be pumped - the pumps run on electricity), to no lights in the house for a while...yeah, it could get interesting fast.
But.
The planet would survive. People? Meh, dunno...but the planet would be just fine. As I live in a fairly moderate climate which is also earthquake country, I'm fairly well prepared to survive w/o stuff for a while.
It's always good to be prepared...but I've thrown out more preps than I care to think about. LOL.
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Herding Cats
Read here:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/29/tidal.wave/index.html
While there is no indication that it would happen anytime soon, it sure could happen...and volcanos don't always give warnings; landmasses sliding into the ocean don't always give warnings, either.
It's an interesting thing, this potential tsunami...I've known about the possibility for many years, and have done a bit of reading on it. Some people use it as a doomsday/2012 thing, but in all honestly, it could happen today...or in 1000 years.
The solar storm could really disrupt communications and all things electronic; and would have a huge impact on us as humans. Between the cars using electronics to household uses to major utility companies, there isn't much that wouldn't be affected if a super-solar-storm was directed at the planet.
There are some doomsday scenarios about that, which are actually plausible; transformers blowing (and transformers would take a long time to repair/replace, especially w/o electricity), food supplies disrupted (because no gas could be pumped - the pumps run on electricity), to no lights in the house for a while...yeah, it could get interesting fast.
But.
The planet would survive. People? Meh, dunno...but the planet would be just fine. As I live in a fairly moderate climate which is also earthquake country, I'm fairly well prepared to survive w/o stuff for a while.
It's always good to be prepared...but I've thrown out more preps than I care to think about. LOL.
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Herding Cats