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Kamog said:
Yeah, I keep hearing that too and we're not ready for one. Fortunately, Vancouver is safe from tsunamis because the island will get hit and block them from reaching Vancouver.
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Except for the people ON the island, which includes pretty much my entire family.
I remember a few years ago, one of the Irish 'low-brow' newspapers published an article saying that Cork was due to be nailed by a massive tsunami caused by an underwater volcanic erruption/seismic event. The tsunami would supposedly obliterate Cork and cause massive flooding all along both coastlines. 1/3 of Ireland's population was expected to perish and 80-90% of the survivors would be without food or shelter. 30% of the survivors of the initial event were predicted to die within a month of the event.
After a while, other papers started to pick up the stories, and eventually even a couple of the respectable papers started running it. Few days later the Irish Times published a story detailing how the '
SCIENTIFIC PROOF' that
PROVED this event will
HAPPEN within a few
MONTHS was actually a hypothetical study carried out to assess the effects of a 500km/h tsunami hitting the south coast of Ireland.
Just a case of one reporter completly mis-interpreting what they were reading, and everyone else jumping on the bandwagon so as not to get left behind on a story.
Of course, anyone with half a brain cell to bounce around should have been able to tell the whole thing was theoretical. After all the report (published Dec2002, I think) started out, "On April 3rd, 2003 at 12:17pm, a tsunami of incredible force will strike the south coast of Ireland."
12:17pm, huh?