U.S. cities that could disappear...........

[tango]

Right, but I'm not talking about a basketball sized rock in the Atlantic, but in a swimming pool. Thats the scale that came to mind.

If you displace hundreds of billions of gallons of water they have to go somewhere, so the result is a tsunami. Just like if you shook a stone slab at the bottom of a swimming pool it wouldn't make much difference but if a tectonic plate shakes at the bottom of the ocean it does.

[Gilligan]

I think the tsunami would weaken the further west it goes, though.

[tango]

I think the tsunami would weaken the further west it goes, though.

I'm not an expert in tsunamis (anyone who is feel free to correct me here), as I understand it the wave is very small as it moves through the deep water (perhaps a metre or so) but as it reaches shallower water it surges.

I'm pretty sure that major earth tremors in the middle of the Pacific can bring very nasty consequences many hundreds or thousands of miles away.

[mattlad22]

I'm not an expert in tsunamis (anyone who is feel free to correct me here), as I understand it the wave is very small as it moves through the deep water (perhaps a metre or so) but as it reaches shallower water it surges.

I'm pretty sure that major earth tremors in the middle of the Pacific can bring very nasty consequences many hundreds or thousands of miles away.

Im not an expert either but as you have said is exactly wha i have been taught regarding them.

[teddyv]

The energy in a tsunami would be reduced slightly as the wave front expands away from the source, since the wave front is getting a larger and larger radius. I'm sure one can actually reasonably calculate the decrease in energy. Certainly in the recent Japanese quake, the coast of Japan received a pretty major tsunami, Hawaii got about a 6 foot wave and there was something close to that on the US westcoast (I think someone was actually killed at Crescent City, CA).

Another key component is the geometry of the beach. Again in Japan, the worst was in these low lying estuary/river valley where the incoming wave would just flow up the land. Rock bottoms to beaches would create enough drag and use up some of the effective energy. Given a big enough wave, this may not really effect the outcome that much.

[Faithful One]

Yikes! I did not expect to see Tucson (wildfire) on there - weird timing!

Arizona is on fire,
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Hi CJ;
That is interesting that you brought that up. Yesterday the Holy Spirit began leading me into a study of the amount of damage that will be caused by FIRE in the last days before Christ's return.

As terrible as the Arizona fires are, it is apparently nothing compared to the horror from the fires that are to come.
Its going to be far more damaging than most people expect, certainly more than I expected before studying this :
Specifically, Joel speaks about the destruction upon the earth due to fire:

" Alas, for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
....how do the beast groan, the herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture.
....for the FIRE has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the FLAME has burned all the trees of the field.
The beasts of the fields cry also unto thee : for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the FIRE has devoured the pastures of the wilderness." Joel 1:15-20

I began to realize that this will not be a local event , but apparently, FIRE is part of the curse that shall devour the earth in the very last days due to the inhabitants breaking God's laws, and the fire shall result in massive deaths worldwide:

Isaiah has something interesting to say in that regard:
" Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down , and scatereth the inhabitants thereof.....
....The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath the CURSE devoured the earth....therefore the inhabitants of the earth ARE BURNED, and FEW men are left." (Isaiah 24:1-6)

WOW! Now that is scary!

This probably corresponds to the time of the sounding of the first trumpet judement in Revelation. 8 :
"The first angel sounded, and there was hail and FIRE, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up"

Yikes!

Praying for you guys in Arizona...

[Gilligan]

It was a tsunami that got us off the island in 1978 if you've seen the movie (after I found a metal disk from a satelite).

[Faithful One]

It was a tsunami that got us off the island in 1978 if you've seen the movie.

Nice rig.
Where's the "No Smoking" sign??

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[Gilligan]

The Skipper forgot to put it up. Glad I cooked the fish though and hut caught fire, that's how the Coast Guard spotted us.