The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is at risk of undergoing a large landslide, which could cause a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean. Volcanic islands and volcanoes on land frequently undergo large landslides/collapses, which have been documented in Hawaii for example.

2024年12月18日 · In La Palma, geology researchers Marie (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) and Haukur (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) find a crack in a volcano that proves an eruption is a few hours away — and that it could...

2021年10月21日 · The recent eruption on La Palma, in the Canary Islands, has stimulated speculation that the volcano might collapse, creating a tsunami that would devastate the east coast of North and South America. But is such a scenario possible or likely?

2025年1月26日 · A La Palma tsunami could still be tall. Even if the waves are not as tall as depicted in the disaster series La Palma, the tsunami researcher at NGI notes that multiple large landslides from the unstable southwest side of La Palma could still generate tall waves. The wave height would depend on the volume of each landslide.

And more locally, tsunami deposits found in the Canary island suggest waves in the past over 150 meters high! Cumbre Vieja is the main volcano on the island of La Palma and has erupted recently, causing large cracks to grow involving the significant motion of …

2021年9月24日 · The volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma won't immediately trigger a tsunami that would leave parts of the East Coast underwater.

2021年9月20日 · A volcano has erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, prompting unfounded fears that a so-called mega-tsunami could be headed to the East Coast of the United States. The Cumbre Vieja...

2021年10月25日 · The latest eruption of La Palma in the Canary Islands has sparked fears that the volcano may collapse, causing a tsunami that would wreak havoc on North and South America's east coasts.

2021年10月1日 · Claims that the devastating volcano eruption in La Palma, in the Canary Islands, currently risks causing a “mega tsunami” that would hit the U.S. East Coast are baseless, officials and experts...

Geological evidence suggests that during a future eruption, Cumbre Vieja Volcano on the Island of La Palma may experience a catastrophic failure of its west flank, drop-ping 150 to 500 km3 of rock into the sea. Using a geologically reasonable estimate of landslide motion, we model tsunami waves produced by such a collapse.