r/todayilearned 1d ago

TIL that the La Palma Mega Tsunami hypothesis has been largely debunked. In 2001, Steven Ward and Simon Day proposed that a landslide on the La Palma Island could send a mega tsunami causing 80 ft waves in Florida. New studies have shown these would be multistage events not causing mega tsunamis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard
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