After there were thousands of small seismic events underneath the Cumbre Vieja volcano field on the Canary island of La Palma (off the coast of West Africa), a fissure broke open, as expected, on the flank of the mointain, and lava is spouting from seven or eight vents. Current live images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmyHHm0Pz_4 (From a Spanish TV station).
The second sentence of my title is not true, of course - but it is not entirely bunk:
You may remember that, 20 years ago, some scientists warned that a volcanic landslide in the Atlantic ocean could possibly lead to a tsunami hundreds of feet high reaching the American east coast and causing unspeakable damage and loss of life.
Well, this is the volcano the theory was all about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre...tsunami_hazard
(Spoiler: Subsequent to that 2001 paper, which made sensationalist headlines in anglosaxon media, other seismologists and hydrologists have done more sophisticated analyses and found that the height of possible tsunamis was probably greatly exaggerated. Still, IF that volcano is unstable, and its flank slides into the ocean, that would be a huge catastrophe locally, and pose some danger to coasts around the northern and central Atlantic)
The second sentence of my title is not true, of course - but it is not entirely bunk:
You may remember that, 20 years ago, some scientists warned that a volcanic landslide in the Atlantic ocean could possibly lead to a tsunami hundreds of feet high reaching the American east coast and causing unspeakable damage and loss of life.
Well, this is the volcano the theory was all about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre...tsunami_hazard
(Spoiler: Subsequent to that 2001 paper, which made sensationalist headlines in anglosaxon media, other seismologists and hydrologists have done more sophisticated analyses and found that the height of possible tsunamis was probably greatly exaggerated. Still, IF that volcano is unstable, and its flank slides into the ocean, that would be a huge catastrophe locally, and pose some danger to coasts around the northern and central Atlantic)
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2XxHuGR
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