The reason about the false alarm
This was all because of a buoy centered about 200 miles east off the coast of Long Beach Island. It has strangely showed a drop of 88 feet in the ocean level, followed by a sudden rise of 180 feet. But there was a simple explanation for the "event mode" being triggered.
The National Data Buoy Center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said workers were doing routine maintenance on the buoy. The awkard and little scary event occurred when they pulled up the bottom pressure recorder. They found the bizarre readings. But this bizarre readings were not an actual event. They were registered because it went into event mode while it was being serviced.
At the end of the day, various news outlets speculated the readings could be due to meteorites or earthquakes, which wasn't the case.
Possibilities of real and devastating tsunami on NJ Shore
Back in 2012, Dr. Alexander Gates, chairman of the Department of Earth Science at Rutgers-Newark stated about tsunami occurring near NJ Shore that: “It’s not likely at all,”. He continued that underwater landslides have generated significant tsunamis, but the energy dissipates as moves away from its source point.
The tsunami in Japan was the result of a fault the size of Californiа that lifted up 15 feet. He said a landslide tsunami would not have a wave of that size.
There are unstable sediments off the East Coast of the U.S. that could generate a slide down the east side which would could generate a tsunami much closer to the shore which would do damage, said Gates. He said that is more likely than a tsunami from a Cumbre Vieja volcano landslide. But even in that event, you will have at least 6 hours warning to get to a safe side. It is also stated that you can get to a safe location in no longer than 20 minutes.
He said a small tsunami is more likely than a killer one. This is calming, we got to admit!
Thoughts about tsunami on NJ shore
Although a tsunami on NJ shore sound scary when you think about it, it is likely that it will not occur, at least not in near future. The words of Dr. Alexander Gates, but also multiple other sources and researches show that there aren’t any possibilities a huge, devastating, damaging, death causing tsunami to occur, but a smaller one is possible. What are your thoughts on this? Do you maybe have some data that is relevant to this topic and can support it? Or maybe you got some contrary findings? Leave them in the comments below.
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