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Could a Tsunami hit our coast, one day?

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  • #52
    Dunjohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    alexa5x5 wrote: »
    Remember seeing something about this on National Geographic. Basically Cork would be destroyed. And much of the rest of the South would be severally damaged.
    I think he means would anything bad happen.


  • #53
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    I think he means would anything bad happen.

    I know this is AH, but there is no excuse for that remark - unless if bertie ahern, brian cowen and seanie fitzpatrick were based in cork.


  • #54
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There's always the threat of a Tsunami. Does this country have any plan in place for this eventuality?

    Are you kidding?
    Look back a year or two to see how well planned we are for just lower, less lethal land floods!


  • #55
    sellerbarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 776 ✭✭✭sellerbarry


    Should have built a Bertie Barrier whilst we had the money.:D


  • #56
    Sacred_git
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 337 ✭✭Sacred_git


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    the canary island is the most likely source if a tsunami is 2 hit ireland
    its a huge mountain with massive cracks in it and they are saying its when and not if it will slide into the Atlantic ,
    as it happens it is facing the south coast of ireland
    talk of 40 meter waves resulting from this mountain slide
    and by all accounts it would be bye bye cork waterford wexford and bristol and other south coast British towns

    REMEMBER KIDS THIS IS FOR REAL , Check it out on line
    its not if but when :eek:

    radical - ill be waxing my surfboard today,its all about the waves dude


  • #57
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Which coast? I think the east coast is pretty safe. North, west and south coast would be pretty f*cked if something happened in the Atlantic.

    Oh isn't it great being in Dublin.

    No wonder everyone outside Dublin hates us.

    We'll be the only survivors post-tsunami.

    Might win the All-Ireland. :p


  • #58
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭freyners


    dj jarvis wrote: »
    the canary island is the most likely source if a tsunami is 2 hit ireland
    its a huge mountain with massive cracks in it and they are saying its when and not if it will slide into the Atlantic ,
    as it happens it is facing the south coast of ireland
    talk of 40 meter waves resulting from this mountain slide
    and by all accounts it would be bye bye cork waterford wexford and bristol and other south coast British towns

    REMEMBER KIDS THIS IS FOR REAL , Check it out on line
    its not if but when :eek:

    that has been debunked mate, i cant remember the video that showed it but but heres a link that does the job anyways


  • #59
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
    The three Storegga Slides are considered to be amongst the largest known landslides. They occurred under water, at the edge of Norway's continental shelf (Storegga is Norwegian for the "Great Edge"), in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km north-west of the Møre coast, causing a very large tsunami in the North Atlantic Ocean. This collapse involved an estimated 290 km length of coastal shelf, with a total volume of 3,500 km3 of debris.[1] Based on carbon dating of plant material recovered from sediment deposited by the tsunami, the latest incident occurred around 6100 BC.[2] In Scotland, traces of the subsequent tsunami have been recorded, with deposited sediment being discovered in Montrose Basin, the Firth of Forth, up to 80 km inland


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Bergen_Island
    map of north sea around that time - things have changed slightly
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Doggerland.svg/300px-Doggerland.svg.png


  • #60
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Altantic ocean tsunami
    http://geology.com/noaa/atlantic-ocean-tsunami/

    :(

    We need to lobby our government to put a plan in place for a tsunami. I know a tsunami here would be rare but it would be very possible all the same.


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  • #61
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Only chance is the Canary Islands volcano and I'd say its not likely to happen in our lifetime. But incase it does, I'll be up the Killarney Mountains if happens so all's gravy baby.


  • #62
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Yakult wrote: »
    Only chance is the Canary Islands volcano and I'd say its not likely to happen in our lifetime. But incase it does, I'll be up the Killarney Mountains if happens so all's gravy baby.

    It probably won't happen in our lifetime but we can't be ignorant and dismiss this information all the same. Look at where ignorance got us. Our ex government were ignorant of warnings of a property bubble, probably hoping for a soft landing. They were ignorant handling the bust, probably hoping that the recession would lift quickly. Now we are economically fcuked and on the brink of a default.


  • #63
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Does this country have any plan in place for this eventuality?
    Does this country have any plan for ANYTHING?


  • #64
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Nolanger wrote: »
    Does this country have any plan for ANYTHING?

    I suppose our answer is FiannaFail! Their only plan was to keep their pockets full with money and pubs, drunken sing-a-alongs in galway hotels, the galway tent and horseracing, licking bankers balls on golfcourses, stealing from the taxpayers and sick children, etc


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/71130735#Comment_71130735

    Ah crap. You had to say it….

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/19/europe/spain-canary-islands-volcano-eruption-intl/index.html

    (though in fairness, this thread has a good set of links debunking the megatsunami fears, which is why I dragged it back up before the Chicken Littles started new ones)



  • #66
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/71127050#Comment_71127050

    Worth highlighting that it took a Jim Gavin sized tsunami for Dublin to win the all-Ireland!



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  • #67
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,471 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/71112205#Comment_71112205

    Wales - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607 Scary because recent enough and cause not fully explained. Also a repeat could take out a few nuclear power plants.

    Norway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide

    Canaries - https://www.freedomnewspaper.com/2021/09/19/gambia-faces-tsunami-risk-from-canaries-errupting-volcano/ - unlikely that the volcano erupting right now might trigger one, but there were big ones in the past

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    And there's always the possibility of a meteorite landing in the Atlantic



  • #68
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,419 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Have we some fella who will ring a bell when the wave is on it's way or what's the craic? I presume we have a tested emergency alert system set up on the entire mobile phone network?



  • #69
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117913525#Comment_117913525

    I got one of them alerts when I was in New York. Someone kidnapped a child and the alert came through, I honestly thought it was a virus as the phone was acting strange in my eye at the second the alert came through with a different alert sound and was stuck on the alert till I figured out what was going on. I have honestly never received one in Ireland so it was a new experience to me.



  • #70
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,419 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117913575#Comment_117913575

    Yes I got a test one before in US the morning I arrived I thought that was that.



  • #71
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    I guess the pandemic really is over then ...



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