Goodbye Charley, you are leaving, Gaston
... and hello, unnamed tsunami out in the Atlantic.
An article in today's online edition of the New York Post (and I could not find any mention of this any other place) should scare the bejabbers out of folks living on the extended East Coast of our country.
The Canary Islands are off the west coast of Africa. In those islands is Cumbre Vieja, an active volcano, where a 12-mile wide chunk of it rattled loose during a previous eruption. (No mention in the article when this happened). WHEN this chunk slides into the Atlantic ocean it COULD set off a 75-foot high tsunami (underwater wave) westward across the ocean at the supersonic speed of 600-mph.
Unless this tsunami gets hung up on the continental shelf it could proceed to the east coast of the USA and travel several miles inland.
Those who are following this estimate think we will have an 8 to 10 hour warning. A director of a London, England based research centre is quoted as "not a matter of IF, but a matter of WHEN."
C'mon guys, are you sure this isn't an advertisement for the movie, "Day After Tomorrow"? Or, has Orson Welles returned?
or, more simply, just NOT read the New York Post.