If a 60 foot Tsunami hit the the East Coast... Would your house be safe?

[valis]

Are you on a hill?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I dunno what I am from sea level.. Not that much I guess

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh, yes, I'd be safe!

I'M IN CALIFORNIA! OK we got the smart-ass answer out of the way for tonight...!

Actually if one hit here, I'd still be safe; my house is behind several low ridges, about one and a half miles from the ocean.

:silly:

On edit: sorry, I just could NOT resist!

[Fluffdaddy]

3. I'm safe in Philly ;)

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Perfectly safe

Now, if one came swelling across Lake Michigan, we'd be shit out of luck.

[The Great Escape]

5. My Entire State Is On a Hill

[Catchawave]

6. I'm not sure....

I'm ten miles inland, how far can a 60 footer go?

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Tough to tell...

I'm at least a mile from the nearest water, and largely protected from most wave and tidal action by New York Harbor. A 60 footer wouldn't hit me directly.

But, we have no idea what the surge will do. It could mean up to a 10-20' rise in the harbor water level, the Hudson, and the local rivers. Then, I might get flooded.

There were some estimates for much larger waves if that rocky shelf off the Azores falls, and no one can guess the damage if the wave would get up to hundreds of feet. A lot of people would be in very deep shit.

I figgers I got 7-8 hours to head for the local hills and watch the show if it looks really bad. I could walk or bicycle to a good hill in Summit if traffic is stopped.

[valis]

8. I'm about 75 feet up from the sea.... :)

:)

[BrklynLiberal]

9. A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is the view from my porch.

That is the Verrazano Bridge on the right

[Huckebein the Raven]

10. I live in the New Madrid fault area

[xmas74]

14. I always forget-are you Nashville or Memphis?

[Huckebein the Raven]

15. M-town

:)

[xmas74]

16. You are so screwed!

That town will be destroyed when NM finally goes. I remember when I was in jr high and high school we used to have drills for NM. I wonder if they still do that since the chances are much higher now (over a 50% chance of it going at any time)?

We had a minor earthquake the other day-3.3.

[Huckebein the Raven]

20. I know. At least I don't live downtown though

And I would like to if I stay here. They are going in and turning the old buildings into some really nice apartments.

Hopefully living out in the 'burbs when the big one hits won't be that bad. I doubt it.

[xmas74]

22. I've got a few links for you my friend.

I really need to dig them up. You are toast.
If they ever have anything similar to 1812, Memphis is gone. That was the year of the four quakes-all 8+ believed.
don't worry-even though I don't live on New Madrid, I'm close enough to feel the shocks. Plus, they suspect it will set off the other smaller ones in the area.

Here's mine from the other day (it was about 20 miles from where I live but I was driving towards there at the time so I was about 8 miles out when it hit):
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/usyfb6.htm

here's a few NM ones:
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/NewMadrid/
and this has some decent links too:
http://www.hsv.com/genlintr/newmadrd/

[Huckebein the Raven]

23. I'm not denying we are going to get hit hard

and I know about the 1812 earthquakes. Don't have to remind me. Hopefully I won't be living here when it happens.

:scared:

[xmas74]

24. It's ok-we're the cool people.

They are all worried about tidal waves. They need to worry about us. Remember, our aftershocks were so hard core that they rung churchbells in Boston. And we made the Miss. River flow backwards.

Just face it-we're screwed. I live about 40 minutes from KC and they said that KC would have extensive damage from it.
Story of my life-gotta worry about tornados, earthquakes or nukes(I live nextdoor to Whiteman-strike zone #3 and the area featured in the movie The Day After).

Any good tornado warnings down there yet?

[Huckebein the Raven]

27. Not as of late

Last Tornado warning we had was a few months ago. Had a severe thunderstorm about two weeks ago and that's about it.

I'm in the same boat too. Don't think we will be spared from nukes in a nuclear war as well.

[xmas74]

28. We've had a slow tornado season too

but I'm not complaining. Some storms and last weeks earthquake is about it.
As to the nukes: the positive side is that I'm dead in minutes. I'll probably never know that it hit. Just climb in bed w/ my daughter and that's it. I'll never feel a thing. I'm that close to the base.

[Huckebein the Raven]

29. Slow death by radiation for me

x(

But it could be worse, surviving in the aftermath of a massive eruption of Yellowstone if it occurred in our lifetimes.

[xmas74]

30. true.

More worried about NM than Yellowstone. It's coming soon enough. Actually, they think NM is overdue.

[Huckebein the Raven]

32. Overdue by about 160 or so years

or something like that. I don't worry about Yellowstone either. If it happens, it happens.

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[LiberallyInclined]

12. we're at about 600 ft. above sea level-

plus, being in chicago, we're pretty far inland- so yeah, my house would be safe.

[Steven_S]

13. Nope, I'm a goner....

I'm on an island at the very beginning of the Long Island Sound.

But I'm an expert swimmer, though. :)

[MrScorpio]

17. This who area would be fucked

More than fucked, actually

[swag]

18. My house will never be safe, no matter how many tidal waves hit the

east coast.

[SW FL Dem]

19. Nope :(

We are at 14-15 ft elevation. We are 100 miles from the East coast, but there is nothing much between here and there other than the Everglades.

[SmileyBoy]

21. I'm close to the geographical centre of North America.

So I wouldn't have to worry.:)

[RagingInMiami]

25. I'm five miles from the bay

At sea level

[AntiCoup2K4]

26. Trump's new house sure wouldn't be

For anyone who saw the Apprentice last week. Why would anybody build a multi-million dollar mansion that close to the water.....in hurricane country, no less??

[WindRavenX]

31. Yup

I'm on top of a big ol' Hill in southwest Boston =)

[sakabatou]

33. Yes I would. I would have 3000 miles of land between me and the wave.