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Old 03-01-2005, 05:05 PM
Tim Challenger
 
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:40:04 +0100, wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:27:03 +0100, "JennyC" wrote:


"Douglas" wrote in message
news

If a
tsunami gets us then there isn't going to be much left of Europe let
alone the UK.

.... At least the plants will get wattered ;-)

Yeah, but it's salt water. how will this affect growing crops in the near
futire?


Who said it's going to happen in the near future?

New Scientist October 7th, 2000:

"It is reassuring that the Cumbre Vieja isn't going to collapse
spontaneously," he[*] says. But it's also worrying. After all, the volcano
erupts once every few decades.
"It's unlikely that the volcano will collapse during the next eruption," he
says, and it may take many more before the fault finally gives. But when it
does give, watch out Florida.


and from NS 29 August 2001
"If the flank collapses, which Day expects to happen sometime in the next
few thousand years ...."

So, not any time soon. Unless we're really unlucky.


* Simon Day of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University
College London, who discovered that a huge chunk of La Palma, the most
volcanically active island in the Canaries, is now unstable.
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Tim C.