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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a chance, op.

There’s no way la Palma will impact the US east coast and dc in any meaningful way in our lifetime. [/quote]

Also, I'm confused about this little nugget. It says 30-40 miles from the coast. DC is over 80 miles from the ocean. [/quote]

DC is at sea level. And at the very end of a long tidal river. This basically places DC at the bottom of a topographic “funnel”, where the effects of a tsunami will be magnified the most.

Do some interweb research about which coastal towns got the worst damage during the Japanese tsunami. The towns that saw the greatest flooding height were all at the back ends of coves and inlets. As water is pushed up into them, the terrain confines it, keeps it from spreading out. So it piles up at the end of such inlets. The Chesapeake bay is a giant inlet. The effects will be far worse here than in other places that are just straight coastline. [/quote]

Only the tidal basin is sea level. The average elevation is over 100'[/quote]

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