Ancient tsunami 'hit New York'

[babsbunny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8028949.stm

By Molly Bentley
Science reporter

A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jersey and casting wood debris far up the Hudson River.

The scenario, proposed by scientists, is undergoing further examination to verify radiocarbon dates and to rule out other causes of the upheaval.

Sedimentary deposits from more than 20 cores in New York and New Jersey indicate that some sort of violent force swept the Northeast coastal region in 300BC.

[hedgehog]

1. I didn't know Rush Limbaugh was around doing belly flops back then.

[DainBramaged]

2. Wow, should I move inland?

[Warpy]

3. The planet has lots of ingenious ways to kill us off

and megatsunami is only one of them. At least we've got a good idea where the next one is coming from, the Canary Islands. That time bomb has been ticking since the late 1940s. It might not go off for hundreds of years, but eventually it will go off.

Remember, nobody gets out alive.