On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:58:28 -0000, BAC wrote:

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 20:16:07 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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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!)

As well as New York

We'll miss the Scillies but NY?

Let us hope no terrorist group discovers a means of triggering the landslide
...

I think you'd need a lot of expensive stuff to move 500,000,000,000 tons of
rock in one go. Someone is bound to notice.
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Tim C.