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By adamg on Tue, 02/06/2018 - 9:20am
This just in from the National Weather Service:
We have been receiving reports that an erroneous tsunami alert across New England. Please note there is NO TSUNAMI THREAT FOR New England.
— NWS Boston (@NWSBoston) February 6, 2018
Um, oops:
Received mine. I was impressed at mother nature’s sudden ability here in the dead of winter. pic.twitter.com/mcVvp1KQb3
— Kate (@KateMeredithP) February 6, 2018
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It's just a wall of urine
It's just a wall of urine because patriots fans are pissed.
Mahalo
Mahalo
Tsunami are possible, in NE,
Tsunami are possible, in NE, though right?
Yes, they are
Here's a 2013 report (which quotes my all-time favorite seismologist, John Ebel of the Weston Observatory, because in an earthquake, Ebel wobble but he don't fall down). The headline is kind of overblown (golly!), but it's still interesting.
But those are boring, run-of-the-mill tsunamis. For a movie-blockbuster mega-tsunami, let's consider part of a Canary Islands volcano falling into the Atlantic, shall we?
Yes
Just very unlikely. The FEMA plans do include them because very distant phenomena like the Lisbon Quake or a Cape Verde landslide could create them for us, but there is little evidence that they happen with any regularity.
Indeed!
Here's the state's webpage on the subject: http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/mema/resources/plans/state-hazard-mitigat...
Note that this risk assessment is being updated, but will not change much other than to (possibly) update the impact of sea level rise on the extent of the tsunami.
BRING OUT THE DUCK BOATS!
oh...nevermind
Please don't become
Please don't become complacent - this gives the tsunami a perfect opportunity to strike now that our guard is down. Stay alert people!
Has the commenter perhaps
Has the commenter perhaps confused "tsunami" with "typhoon"? That's the only way I can make the winter reference make sense.