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On 3/1/05 11:30, in article , "Cerumen"
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:09:33 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
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The main risk is the big piece of rock which is expected to fall off
an island in the Canaries, generate a tidal wave that will wipe out
the East Coats of the USA and not do a lot of good to the low
countries.

Apparently a tsunami hit the west coast of Ireland in 1775 ? after a
seismic event near the Azores and Canaries causing some considerable
damage..

A recent article I read somewhere said that if the predicted bit of La
Palma
falls off in one slab the resulting tsunami will lead to the disappearance
of the Isles of Scilly (among other damage!)

....and a more recent one I read said that studies of actual landslides in
those islands showed it tended to fall off in relatively small chunks that
wouldnt cause any significant damage at all. That of course gets much less
headline space than an alarming report.
Which is why everytime a new asteroid is spotted the first you hear about
it is what the odds of it crashing into the earth and destroying all life
(or an area the size of Wales) are.
However I did manage to find the report (amongst the other 999,999
prophesying doom.)....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3963563.stm

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