Tsunami hitting California?

[Scurrybt]

How likely do you think it is that an earthquake will strike the west coast that is big enough to trigger a large tsunami hitting California?

[Dimensional Traveler]

Zero. An earthquake along the West Coast will send tsunamis away from California across the Pacific to wipe out Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, etc.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Plot twist: Global warming will prevent the tsunamis.
Get to work on pumping out those hydrocarbons.

[Delta]

Messaggio originale di Introverted Gamer:

We need more water for the farmers.

But salt water damages the crops.

[Othobrithol]

Of the teletsunamis that have struck the West Coast, the 1964 Gulf of Alaska tsunami caused the most extensive damage, particularly in Crescent City, California. Overall, approximately 28 tsunamis with runup greater than 1 meter have occurred along the U.S. West Coast since 1812.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc/could-it-happen-here

[Scurrybt]

Messaggio originale di Othobrithol:

Of the teletsunamis that have struck the West Coast, the 1964 Gulf of Alaska tsunami caused the most extensive damage, particularly in Crescent City, California. Overall, approximately 28 tsunamis with runup greater than 1 meter have occurred along the U.S. West Coast since 1812.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc/could-it-happen-here

Wow!

[Scurrybt]

Messaggio originale di Delta (EB):

Messaggio originale di Introverted Gamer:

We need more water for the farmers.

But salt water damages the crops.

You are right

[WhiteKnight77]

Years ago, when I was stationed in SoCal, there was a tsunami warning, and the i d ten ts went to the beach to see if it was gonna hit.

Messaggio originale di Dimensional Traveler:

Zero. An earthquake along the West Coast will send tsunamis away from California across the Pacific to wipe out Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, etc.

Yeah, no. If that were the case, the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant would have never happened. Same for the tsunami that hit Sumatra and destroyed Aceh and other cities/towns surrounding the Indian Ocean.

[Ebony Woman Enjoyer]

They probably deserve it tbh.

[Scurrybt]

Messaggio originale di Ebony Woman Enjoyer.:

They probably deserve it tbh.

Yes

[davidb11]

Messaggio originale di Dimensional Traveler:

Zero. An earthquake along the West Coast will send tsunamis away from California across the Pacific to wipe out Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, etc.

The only way your idea would work is if a meteor larger than the one that killed off the dinosaurs hit right off the coast of Los Angeles.

Otherwise, no Tsunami could reach Japan or Australia and be felt there from an origin point near the West Coast.

That being said, given enough time, a Tsunami could hit California.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

It'd be nice to have beachfront property all of a sudden with a tsunami.

I'm still waiting for global warming to put Malibu and Los Angeles underwater.

The rich activists with their private jets and yachts and beachfront mansions keep telling us that in 10 years we will be underwater or dead if we don't spend more money on fighting global warming.

Well, they've been saying that every 10 years for 50 years now... I'm starting to doubt it.

[Scurrybt]

Messaggio originale di Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

It'd be nice to have beachfront property all of a sudden with a tsunami.

I'm still waiting for global warming to put Malibu and Los Angeles underwater.

The rich activists with their private jets and yachts and beachfront mansions keep telling us that in 10 years we will be underwater or dead if we don't spend more money on fighting global warming.

Well, they've been saying that every 10 years for 50 years now... I'm starting to doubt it.

Don’t we all want beachfront property?

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

100%. There are sediment layers of previous tsunamis allover the coast there.

[davidb11]

Messaggio originale di Rumpelcrutchskin:

100%. There are sediment layers of previous tsunamis allover the coast there.

Yeah. There's been Tsunami sediment miles inland on England of all places!

[metamec]

Tsunamis are my irrational fear since moving near the coast. I read about a mild (deadly) tsunami decades ago but I think it was caused by the airport construction causing a marine landslide.