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Is this massive scale landslide danger an Atlantic bicoastal tsunami danger like the Canary Islands? edit link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsun
by AtlasBarfed 5y ago
Is this massive scale landslide danger an Atlantic bicoastal tsunami danger like the Canary Islands?
edit link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard
- pfdietz 5y agoNo, it's due to people living on the debris fans below steep cliffs on the island, which were formed by previous large landslides.
- philipov 5y agoThe article compares it to them, but also mentions that the exact extent of a tsunami danger from landslides in the canaries is debated. There are arguments that the travel distance to landfall, continental shelves, and tendency towards multi-stage landslides mitigates the danger from landslides in the Canary Islands.