- Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:19 pm
#207
TSUNAMI SCENARIO FOR NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE INCLUDES HIDDEN ATLANTIC FAULTS
By Michael H. Brown, from www.SpiritDaily.com
Many are the questions about North America and its susceptibility to a tsunami. We have been discussing this for a number of years, since Sent To Earth in 2000, for which a visit was paid to the tsunami center.
What did the experts think? What do the prophets say?
There is the obvious susceptibility of California and the West Coast. While the San Andreas is not expected to generate a tsunami, there are many seismic "faults" and underwater canyons just off the coast that could generate what is known as a localized event, especially if a quake triggers an underwater landslide. Tsunamis from Alaskan quakes already have caused major damage in California towns like Crescent City.
Speaking of Alaska, it has been lashed by tidal waves generated in large seismic events offshore and by a quake that sent a landslide into Lituya Bay in 1958 -- causing a wave that, for its short life across that lake, rose to a record height of 1,720 feet at the mouth of the bay.
Off the state of Washington is a huge fault line that could likewise generate tsunamis.
Experts we spoke to at the U.S. Geological Survey are especially concerned about Hawaii, and particularly the "Big Island" (home to the city of Hilo). A large southern "flank" of the island is separating from the rest and if it falls into the ocean, that could cause a tsunami to rise hundreds of feet at the point of impact and sweep over nearby islands, including Oahu (home to Honolulu).
There have been at least 17 such slides in geological history -- sending house-sized boulders on rolls of up to fifty miles on the ocean floor near Hawaii -- and there are some scientists who believe that one such collapse sent a damaging wave all the way to New Zealand (and perhaps California).
If a tsunami were to hit California, it would most affect low-lying areas like Santa Monica and the port area of Los Angeles. Watch too for canyons off the middle part of the state.
Then there is the Atlantic. Here we have a number of concerns. One is drawing much publicity and involves the Canary Islands.
According to a recent study, an explosion of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary island of La Palma could send a chunk of rock twice the size of the Isle of Wight into the Atlantic at up to 220 miles an hour. "In the study's scenario, energy released would equal the electricity consumption of the United States for six months -- sending gigantic tidal waves across the Atlantic at the speed of a jet plane," notes a news service. "Devastation in the United States would reach trillions of dollars with tens of millions of lives at risk. Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa would also be swamped by giant waves. 'It may occur in the next eruption, which could be next year, or it may be 10 eruptions down the line,' said Bill McGuire of Britain's Benfield Hazard Research Center. Cumbre Vieja, which last exploded in 1971, typically erupts at intervals of between 20 and 200 years."
So concerned about this situation is Ned Dougherty, a former nightclub owner on Long Island who "saw" tidal waves during a famous near-death episode, that he visited the Canary Islands volcano in November and has issued an urgent letter saying a problem there is "imminent." Other mystics from California to Ireland have likewise envisioned engulfing waves.
We submit this all for discernment -- with the admonishment that these are solely personal viewpoints, and that prayer can prevent anything.
But without prayer (and, might we add, fasting), the threat may be real. More hidden but perhaps more threatening is a scenario under the ocean floor itself. About 300 miles west of Gibraltar (between the Azores and Portugal) is a band of faults near an underwater range of mountains called the Gorringe Ridge.
Pay especially close heed to this.
It's near the continental margin in a part of the ocean that is as strange as it is dangerous -- and unknown even to many seismologists.
Yet it could generate an earthquake up to at least magnitude-9.5 -- several times as powerful as what just occurred near Indonesia.
Though not at 9.5-level, quakes have erupted here in the past. One -- on All Saints' Day in 1755 -- caused the destruction of 18,000 buildings in Lisbon and sent tsunamis that washed ashore from Africa to England. Waves rose in the Celtic Sea and even entered the western end of the Mediterranean. Huge waves lashed at ancient towns in southern Portugal. A rise in water levels was even recorded across the ocean along the American coast -- and on inland American lakes (due to deep vibrations).
A larger quake could send a wall of water from Florida to Maine. In 1954 and 1969 mysterious and very deep quakes occurred at the Gorringe Ridge. Experts don't even understand where or how they occurred. Ten events with magnitudes of more than six have occurred since 1931 as though a slab or blob of lithosphere had fallen as one part dropped and another rose into a range of underwater mountains.
It's at 36.5 north latitude/11 west longitude. Pray about this area. While ignoring such threats is dangerous, so is unnecessary fear. The answer instead is prayer.
In a snippet this week on Fox News, Florida governor Jeb Bush said that when he first heard of the Asian tsunami, he "began to pray the Rosary." It's a lesson for us all. At the apparition site of Medjugorje the Blessed Mother said that "with prayer and fasting you can stop wars and even suspend the laws of nature."
By Michael H. Brown, from www.SpiritDaily.com
Many are the questions about North America and its susceptibility to a tsunami. We have been discussing this for a number of years, since Sent To Earth in 2000, for which a visit was paid to the tsunami center.
What did the experts think? What do the prophets say?
There is the obvious susceptibility of California and the West Coast. While the San Andreas is not expected to generate a tsunami, there are many seismic "faults" and underwater canyons just off the coast that could generate what is known as a localized event, especially if a quake triggers an underwater landslide. Tsunamis from Alaskan quakes already have caused major damage in California towns like Crescent City.
Speaking of Alaska, it has been lashed by tidal waves generated in large seismic events offshore and by a quake that sent a landslide into Lituya Bay in 1958 -- causing a wave that, for its short life across that lake, rose to a record height of 1,720 feet at the mouth of the bay.
Off the state of Washington is a huge fault line that could likewise generate tsunamis.
Experts we spoke to at the U.S. Geological Survey are especially concerned about Hawaii, and particularly the "Big Island" (home to the city of Hilo). A large southern "flank" of the island is separating from the rest and if it falls into the ocean, that could cause a tsunami to rise hundreds of feet at the point of impact and sweep over nearby islands, including Oahu (home to Honolulu).
There have been at least 17 such slides in geological history -- sending house-sized boulders on rolls of up to fifty miles on the ocean floor near Hawaii -- and there are some scientists who believe that one such collapse sent a damaging wave all the way to New Zealand (and perhaps California).
If a tsunami were to hit California, it would most affect low-lying areas like Santa Monica and the port area of Los Angeles. Watch too for canyons off the middle part of the state.
Then there is the Atlantic. Here we have a number of concerns. One is drawing much publicity and involves the Canary Islands.
According to a recent study, an explosion of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary island of La Palma could send a chunk of rock twice the size of the Isle of Wight into the Atlantic at up to 220 miles an hour. "In the study's scenario, energy released would equal the electricity consumption of the United States for six months -- sending gigantic tidal waves across the Atlantic at the speed of a jet plane," notes a news service. "Devastation in the United States would reach trillions of dollars with tens of millions of lives at risk. Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa would also be swamped by giant waves. 'It may occur in the next eruption, which could be next year, or it may be 10 eruptions down the line,' said Bill McGuire of Britain's Benfield Hazard Research Center. Cumbre Vieja, which last exploded in 1971, typically erupts at intervals of between 20 and 200 years."
So concerned about this situation is Ned Dougherty, a former nightclub owner on Long Island who "saw" tidal waves during a famous near-death episode, that he visited the Canary Islands volcano in November and has issued an urgent letter saying a problem there is "imminent." Other mystics from California to Ireland have likewise envisioned engulfing waves.
We submit this all for discernment -- with the admonishment that these are solely personal viewpoints, and that prayer can prevent anything.
But without prayer (and, might we add, fasting), the threat may be real. More hidden but perhaps more threatening is a scenario under the ocean floor itself. About 300 miles west of Gibraltar (between the Azores and Portugal) is a band of faults near an underwater range of mountains called the Gorringe Ridge.
Pay especially close heed to this.
It's near the continental margin in a part of the ocean that is as strange as it is dangerous -- and unknown even to many seismologists.
Yet it could generate an earthquake up to at least magnitude-9.5 -- several times as powerful as what just occurred near Indonesia.
Though not at 9.5-level, quakes have erupted here in the past. One -- on All Saints' Day in 1755 -- caused the destruction of 18,000 buildings in Lisbon and sent tsunamis that washed ashore from Africa to England. Waves rose in the Celtic Sea and even entered the western end of the Mediterranean. Huge waves lashed at ancient towns in southern Portugal. A rise in water levels was even recorded across the ocean along the American coast -- and on inland American lakes (due to deep vibrations).
A larger quake could send a wall of water from Florida to Maine. In 1954 and 1969 mysterious and very deep quakes occurred at the Gorringe Ridge. Experts don't even understand where or how they occurred. Ten events with magnitudes of more than six have occurred since 1931 as though a slab or blob of lithosphere had fallen as one part dropped and another rose into a range of underwater mountains.
It's at 36.5 north latitude/11 west longitude. Pray about this area. While ignoring such threats is dangerous, so is unnecessary fear. The answer instead is prayer.
In a snippet this week on Fox News, Florida governor Jeb Bush said that when he first heard of the Asian tsunami, he "began to pray the Rosary." It's a lesson for us all. At the apparition site of Medjugorje the Blessed Mother said that "with prayer and fasting you can stop wars and even suspend the laws of nature."