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East Coast Megatsunami

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If you’ve watched a disaster movie before, you may have seen the megatsunami before- a monstrous mass of water that barrels into the land, wiping out everything in its path. These megatsunamis do exist in real life, and they are mainly generated by asteroid impacts.

However, the chance that the US, Canada, and other nations in North and South America could get swamped by one of these things is very likely.

Let’s take a look at Cumbre Vieja- a highly volcanic island in the Canary Islands. It has an extremely unstable flank, and an eruption could cause the whole flank to collapse into the Atlantic Ocean.

The collapse would generate a kilometer-tall wave initially, then it would spread out. It would reach some coastal European nations, such as the UK, Portugal, and Spain. There, the tsunami would be 30-40 feet tall.

However, as well as going north, the tsunami would head west. Once it reached the east coast of nations like the US, Canada, and Brazil, the waves would be 150-180 feet tall. The wall of water would slam into cities like Boston, Miami, and New York, cause severe damage in those coastal cities, and go many miles inland. Since America has had such “good” leadership from presidents like Bush and Obama, we would probably not be able to fully recover from this, and some areas on the eastern seaboard may simply be abandoned.

Thank you for reading my post, and if you read my previous one, I apologize if it seems a bit morbid again. Next time, I’ll try to write about something else than a disaster.

 

The Threat of EMP

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For those that don’t know, an EMP, or an electromagnetic pulse, is a high intensity radiation blast that can be caused by a variety of different things, the most common being a high altitude nuclear detonation.

Now, I’m not trying to talk about what an EMP is, but what it DOES. EMP is probably one of the greatest threats to America, because it destroys the one thing everyone relies on- electrical devices. EMP essentially fries an electric device, rendering it a piece of junk. As well as that, however, EMP can do that to entire power grids, rendering them unusable, which would cut off power to an entire nation.

EMP would also shut off vehicles, cell phones, household devices, among several other things. In the event of an EMP blast, every single location in the US would be totally devoid of power. In neighborhoods, people would be wondering what the heck happened, and they might start calling friends or relatives to check on them and get some info about the event. Panic would rise when everyone realized their cell phones, computers, tablets, and other electronics no longer worked. If people tried to get into their cars, they’d soon realize that they wouldn’t work, and others may even see planes randomly falling out of the sky. By then, people would realize this was not a blackout- someone launched an attack on America, and was very successful.

With transportation, communication, power, and other vital things that keep the US running shut off, America would soon degrade into anarchy, and would cease to exist as a nation. With refrigeration and electrical pumps knocked out, people would have to go out of the comfort zone of their home to search for food and water. In doing so, they may encounter other people and have to fight them, get mauled by wild animals or the environment, or simply killed off by dehydration and hunger. In a short period of time, quite a bit of us- would be dead.

This post may seem extremely grim, but it is quite a possibility, considering that all you have to do to cause an EMP is to put a nuclear warhead on a cheap missile, launch it to a high altitude, then detonate it. Anyways, post your thoughts in the comments below, or you can request that I write about something else. Bye, everyone!