The canary
islands are great for going on holiday. What most tourists and
inhabitants don’t know, however, is that on one of the Canary Islands lies a
major global catastrophe, a natural disaster so big it could flatten the
Atlantic coastlines of North Africa, United States, Britain and Europe and
cause enormous harm to all the sforementioned.
Scattered across
the worlds oceans are a handful of rare geological and natural time-bombs,
that, once the time runs out, will create an uncommon phenomenon, an enormous
tidal wave called Mega Tsunami.
Lately, scientists have known that the next Mega Tsunami will probably originate from one of the Canary Islands, where the wall of water will move across the Atlantic ocean at the speed
of a jet airliner ready to destroy the east coast of the United States, the
Caribbean and Brazil.
The cause?
One fraction of the “Cumbre Vieja” volcano on
“La Palma” is unstable and could be engulfed by the sea after
cracking and dividing from the fire mountain due to the next volcanic eruption.
Dr. Day said in
an interview with the BBC: "
If the volcano
collapsed in one block of almost 20 cubic kilometers of rock, weighing 500
billion tonnes - twice the size of the Isle of Wight -. It would fall into
water almost 4 miles deep and create an undersea wave 2000 feet tall. Within
five minutes of the landslide, a dome of water about a mile high would form
and then collapse, before the Mega Tsunami would fan out in every direction,
travelling at speeds of up to 500 mph. a 330ft wave would strike the western
Sahara in less than an hour. "
Europe would be shielded from the savage force
thanks to its remote position, the Iberian penisula would get batteres with 33
ft. waves reaching La Coruña and Lisbon within 3 hours.
This was written by Erik Sörensen of 3rd ESO Combined Science
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