Weird Mini Tsunami Hits England’s Coast
Excerpts; By OurAmazingPlanet
A mild tsunami swept the coast of southern England this week, sending people running for higher ground, British media reported.
On Monday morning (June 27), water came surging ashore in Cornwall, and eyewitnesses reported a feeling of static electricity in the air.
“The funniest thing was on the causeway all the ladies’ hair was standing on end with the static,” Dave Ladner, a boater near St. Michael’s Mount, the famed tidal island off the coast of Cornwall, told the BBC.
The wave, thought to have been roughly 16 inches (40 centimeters) high, didn’t cause any damage, and there were no earthquakes in the region at the time of the tsunami, according to the British Geological Survey and the tsunami was likely the result of an underwater landslide….
Scientists have long warned that underwater landslides pose significant tsunami risk, including in the Los Angeles area. Megatsunamis caused by landslides are thought to occur every 100,000 years or so. A volcanic landslide is thought to have generated an unbelievably monstrous 1,600-foot tsunamiin Hawaii 110,000 years ago….
Tsunamis in the UK, Wikipedia
Tsunami waves are so rare in the United Kingdom that there have only been two confirmed tsunamis in recorded history. Geologists have described potential future tsunami threats to Britain from two different causes. In the 1990s, they realised that the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma, in North Africa in the Canary Islands could pose a tsunami risk to Britain, as it is seemingly unstable. They concluded that a future volcanic eruption will result in the mass of rock alongside the volcanoes breaking off and falling into the sea as a massive landslide.
Tsunami Swamped England 400 Years Ago, Study Says, National Geographic
