{"id":399,"date":"2004-08-10T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/save-yourselves-move-to-the-midwest\/"},"modified":"2004-08-10T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T15:30:00","slug":"save-yourselves-move-to-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/save-yourselves-move-to-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Save yourselves! Move to the midwest!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another reason why living by a Great Lake is better than living by the ocean: little danger of tidal waves<\/a>.
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A collapsing volcano could trigger a vast tidal wave capable of wiping New York, Washington and Miami off the map, warn geologists.<\/p>\n

They also fear southern England could be hit.<\/p>\n

Geologists are concerned that an unstable flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canaries is in danger of sliding into the sea.<\/p>\n

If shaken loose by a volcanic eruption, the huge slab of rock would send a tsunami more than 150 metres high racing across the Atlantic at the speed of a jumbo jet.<\/p>\n

Within three hours, the wave would swamp the east coast of Africa, within five hours it would reach southern England and within 12 it would hit America’s east coast.<\/p>\n

New York, Washington, Boston and Miami would be hit by successive waves abound 20 metres high. Tens of millions of people could die.<\/p>\n

Although the volcano could erupt any day – it has been dormant since 1971 but tends to erupt every 20 to 200 years – funding to British scientists investigating the threat has been stopped.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I like “They also fear southern England could be hit.” And this is a British scientist, in a story reported by the London Telegraph. <\/p>\n

But there’s good news, as well: hysteria about being hit by an asteroid has somehow managed to decrease that risk from “microscopically small” to “really so miniscule that we can relax a little.” Thank goodness about that.
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Another reason why living by a Great Lake is better than living by the ocean: little danger of tidal waves. A collapsing volcano could trigger a vast tidal wave capable of wiping New York, Washington and Miami off the map, warn geologists. They also fear southern England could be hit. Geologists are concerned that an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}