2 October 2009 16:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I am struggling to keep up with the natural disasters at the moment. The main point of this post is to highlight the continued threat of Typhoon Parma to the northern Philippines. The current track forecast has it making landfall in the next day or so in the northern part of Luzon. The forecasts are still that it will stall as it makes its way across that area – this …
Tags: Cambodia, earthquake, India, indonesia, Italy, landslide report, tropical cyclone, typhoon, Vietnam
3 May 2009 20:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The BBC are running a slightly strange story today about the possibility that the News York area was hit by a tsunami about 2,300 years ago. Given that by far the most likely source of a tsunami is a submarine landslide, this is of some interest. The odd part of this is the timing of the story – I cannot quite work out why it has popped up again now. …
Tags: impact event, New York, tsunami, USA
9 October 2008 08:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A few years ago the media got rather excited about a paper that suggested that there was the potential for a giant flank collapse on the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands. A model of the resultant tsunami suggested that it could be sufficiently large to cause huge losses throughout the coastal areas of the North Atlantic. Most scientists now believe that this tsunami was something of an exageration …
Tags: flank collapse, tonga, tsunami
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