I heard a terrible story from Mr. Hiroyuki Tanaka of the ** Research Institute of the University of Tokyo. We've talked about the largest tsunami on Earth in this book, so how big is the biggest tsunami?
Of course, apart from the apocalypse of giant meteorites flying out of space, what is the maximum tsunami that can be expected in the current (relatively speaking) peaceful global environment?
Readers may be shocked and hard to believe. It has been pointed out that there is a possibility of a mega tsunami with an altitude of 1,000 meters. A sloping fault has been found in a third of the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands in northwestern Africa, and the sea level has risen abnormally as a result of a volcanic eruption that causes a huge amount of ground to fall into the sea, like a child jumping into a bathtub at once.
1000 meters is an unimaginable height. It will be a tsunami much taller than the 634-meter Tokyo Sky Tree. Nearly 20,000 people were killed and missing due to a 10-meter-high tsunami in East Japan, so it should be clear what the 1,000-meter-high tsunami means.
Maybe it's a little too scary.
The so-called height of 1,000 meters refers to the sea area around the eruption, and the height of the tsunami will gradually decrease as it spreads from this area to the entire earth, and it is said that it will drop to about 10 meters when it reaches the vicinity of New York. In addition, the height of 1,000 meters refers to the height of the earth when most of the earth collapses into the sea at the same time. In fact, there is a high probability of a tsunami much lower than this altitude, so there is no need to worry too much.
Mr. Tanaka was the first person to conduct perspective studies of volcanic interiors using elementary particles called mesons. He is a big man who wants to make predictions about the condition of the fault and the signs of volcanic eruptions on La Palma. It is said that the "germination" of a huge tsunami can be achieved by artificially destroying a part of the soil layer or reversing a part, but it is unknown whether such a large-scale civil project can be realized.
In short, we can't help but be surprised that the danger of humanity's demise lurks in most places that we don't notice. Perhaps, what you don't know is the most terrifying.
**10,000 Fans Incentive Program Tokyo Sky Tree, also known as Tokyo Skytree, has become one of the symbols of Tokyo with a height of 634 meters and was certified as the "World's Tallest Tower" by the Guinness Book of World Records on November 17, 2011.