It is passing strange that this building geological threat which could ultimately result in a catastrophe for the entire Eastern Coastline and Caribbean has gone largely unreported by the mainstream media. Evacuation plans should be widely disseminated to an unsuspecting public well beforehand as there will be precious little time to do so whenever the 'big one' finally hits. It is estimated that residents will have a tiny window of just seven hours to get far enough inland to escape the onrushing tsunami.
The IGN, Spain’s USGS equivalent, has issued a Red Alert warning for the El Hierro volcanic region in the Canary Islands
amid thousands of earthquake swarms and volcanic activity which started in early August:
SPAIN’S Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) confirmed on
Tuesday that an underwater eruption has occurred five kilometres off the
southern coastline of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands.
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A Red Alert has since been issued by local authorities for the town.
A notice posted on the Emergencia El Hierro website on Tuesday
evening stated: “Phase pre-eruptive. It involves the initiation of a
preventive evacuation. Make yourself available to the authorities.”
Source: The Olive Press (Spain)
For those not familiar with the volcano, it is situated off the
northwest coast of Africa in the Canary Islands, an autonomous
Spanish archipelago. While there is no danger to the United States from
volcanic eruptions, it has been long theorized by researchers that a
large enough eruption and earthquake may be capable of splitting
a neighboring volcano, La Palma, in two, which would subsequently cause a
land slide on a scale unprecedented in recorded human history. The
result would be a massive Mega-Tsunami that would cross the Atlantic
ocean, slamming into the Eastern cost of the United States,
the Caribbean islands and parts of South America.
While Tsunamis on this scale are incredibly rare according to researchers, a landslide in 1958 in
Latuya Bay, Alaska caused a Mega Tsunami (
video) whose wave was higher than the Empire State Building and washed over trees and land some 1,700 feet high above sea level.
The theorized landslide in the Canary Islands would involve
rock masses that far exceed the Alaskan landslides, estimated to be
10,000 times as much mass, suggesting that the resulting
Tsunami would easily exceed three thousand feet (30 times bigger than
the the 2004 Indian ocean Tsunami) and travel at roughly 450 – 500 miles
per hour. The wave would slam into the Eastern seaboard
with extreme force threatening over 200 million people who live in
states from Florida to Maine, the north eastern Canadian coast, the
Caribbeans, Brazil and Venezuela.
Simon Day, of the College University of London, says the La Palma
volcano, situated in the earthquake zone and less than 100 miles from
Hierro, is a geological time bomb:
What we envisage is the whole of this coast line
[approximately 1/6 the entire mass of the island] and the slope
extending up, all the way to the crest of this volcano that is now in
the clouds… will slide away in a single massive landslide into the
ocean, pushing the water up in front of it to create the Tsunami wave.
An previous earthquake (1949) in the Canaries caused the La Palma
volcano to actually split nearly in half, prompting scientists to begin
warning of the real possibility that massive earthquakes and volcanic
activity could be devastating to residents of not only the Canary
Islands, but North and South America, as well.
Video Simulation: Time Line of Canary Islands Landslide Originated Mega Tsunami:
Given that the entire region is under earthquake warnings and parts
of the Canary Islands are now being evacuated, with a red alert having
been issued in the Hierro area, we find it necessary to, at the very
least, inform our East Coast readers of the possible threat should a
massive earthquake in the region cause a breaking away of parts of the
island(s).
The USGS is apparently
refusing to issue
news, alerts or warnings to East Coast residence regarding the
progressively deteriorating circumstances surrounding the El Hierro
volcano in the Canary Islands, and a search of the USGS web site
resulted in no information, news, alerts or warnings for how these
events may affect the United States. Primary news channels remain silent
on any possible threats as well.
Modern Survival Blog’s research
indicates the activity is so significant that the Canary Islands have
been sinking since July of this year and we are now receiving reports of
widespread volcanic flows in the ocean:
A look at the GPS stations there,
reveals quite evidently that most of them (6 of 10) in the area are
literally sinking, and have been doing so since about July of this year.
My own observations of other volcanic regions have shown that there is
often ‘inflation’ or rising of the land mass prior to volcanic eruption.
In this case though, there is rather dramatic deflation to the
northeast of El Hierro, particularly ‘Canarias’. The region is sinking…
…
In stark contrast though at El Hierro, today, from VolcanoLive.com
(John Seach), “An undersea eruption began off the coast of El Hierro
Island, Canary Islands on 10th October 2011. Initial reports have placed
the eruption site a few kilometres off the south coast of the island at
a depth of about 450 m. The eruption has only been confirmed from
seismic activity.”
It is our intention to keep the public aware of the
possibility of large-scale natural disasters, and the events taking
place in the Canary Islands certainly qualify. As the information above
suggests, such events are rare, yet extremely destructive if they come to pass.
At this time we advise those on the East Coast to remain aware of the earthquake swarms off the coast of Northwest Africa. In the event a massive enough quake occurs, dislodging parts of the La Palma volcano, you’ll
have approximately seven (7) hours to evacuate the east coast of the
United States and make your way inland before the first wave hits.
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