The Tease of Things I Don't Need

Wave of the Future?

Earlier today Dwight Williams, largely in light of the growing death toll in the wake of the recent earthquake-drive tsunami in Sumatra, etc., sent me a note concerning a piece by Gwynne Dyer he’d read concerning the possibility of a similar event striking the Atlantic Coast of North America. This echoed some concerns of my own, having read a few years ago about one or more Atlantic Ocean undersea landslides just waiting to happen -- think of huge, steep inclines in the floor of the ocean and remember that massive landslides can happen there just as they can in any mountainous region -- and relatively recent research that had uncovered evidence of similar, mega-tsunami events to befall this landmass over the past hundred millennia or so. Others are focusing almost solely on the Pacific coast – largely due to greater techtonic and volcanic activity, but even there most seem content to mark any such concerns as alarmist… which I understand - people along the Pacific Coast feel far more threatened by local earthquake activity, but I still find it to be a tad irresponsible to simply dismiss what is at least a likely eventuality.