‘Doomsday’ 100-foot mega tsunami likely to hit the US
Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment.
Yet bizarrely, experts say that the sooner the tsunami hits the better despite thousands of deaths being predicted in their models.
The natural disaster threat stems from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 700-mile fault line from northern California to British Columbia, which has lain dormant for 300 years.
The zone is due for a major earthquake, scientists say, and any resulting tsunami will be more devastating if sea levels continue to rise.
‘By 2100, when climate-driven sea-level rise will compound the hazard, a great earthquake could expand floodplains… more than tripling the flooding exposure of residents, structures, and roads under the high subsidence scenario compared to the 2023 floodplain,’ states a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
‘This is going to be a very catastrophic event for the US, for sure,’ the study’s lead author, Tina Dura, told BBC Science Focus.
‘The tsunami is going to come in, and it’s going to be devastating.’
A quake of magnitude 8.0 to 9.0 could create a 100-foot tsunami capable of crushing eight feet of the coastline and wiping out much of the West Coast.
‘After the tsunami comes and eventually recedes, the land is going to persist at lower levels,’ Dura said.
‘That floodplain footprint is going to be altered for decades or even centuries.’
Such a quake could cause 5,800 deaths, and the resulting tsunami could claim another 8,000 lives, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation’s agency helping people before, during and after disasters.
The coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, up to northern Vancouver Island in Canada, are under the threat.
The last massive earthquake, magnitude 9.0, hit in January 1700 and spurred a tsunami that took out the village of Pachena Bay in British Columbia.
‘This study underscores the need to consider combined earthquake and climate impacts in planning for coastal resilience at the Cascadia subduction zone and globally,’ states the article.
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Comment: This has been predicted by the Oarfish washing up on California coasts.
‘Oarfish’ Are Now Resurfacing (Again)—and a Superstition Has Some People Worried the ‘Doomsday’ Fish Is a Serious Warning
Sightings of the ‘doomsday’ fish may have a deeper meaning.
The oarfish, a rare deep-sea creature often referred to as the “harbinger of death” or the “doomsday fish” has once again surfaced (for the third time this year), stirring up a mix of superstitions and anxieties. Long-told legends surrounding the oarfish have persisted for centuries, with Japanese culture associating its appearance with impending doom or catastrophic events.
The sea serpent has also been nicknamed “The Messenger from the Sea God’s Palace.”
It’s one of the longest fish species in the world, known to grow more than 30 feet in length and weigh up to 600 pounds. Its slender, ribbon-like body and iridescent silver scales are rarely spotted by humans due to its preference for depths between 656 and 3,200 feet. However, oarfish were spotted by scuba divers in Taiwan last year and have turned up in California this week. Why?
Legend has it, the oarfish is known to run to the surface only when many humans are about to be in danger. It’s believed that the oarfish appears as a warning, to show that an earthquake or a tsunami is approaching. And there’s a reason that people in the present-day take this old myth to heart.
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Back in 2010, at least a dozen oarfish were reported to have washed up onto Japan’s coastline. Not long after, in March 2011, a severe earthquake hit Japan’s Fukushima, simultaneously triggering a deadly tsunami.
Six oarfish were spotted days before a deadly 2017 earthquake in the southern Philippines. And just a couple of years later in early 2019, at least three oarfish were found washed up on Japan’s shores—just months before the Yamagata earthquake and blackout.
