A documentary that warned about the disasters that could cause the La Palma volcano was viral
Old Summit
El documental de National Geographic se emitió en La 2 y teorizaba sobre un megatsunami del Old Summit
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La Palma |The lava progresses towards the sea, last time live
Marc Mestres
The eruption of the Old Summit volcano has become a nightmare for thousands of people living on the Canary Island and who have had to leave their homes due to the constant progress of the lava.
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Martí AbadThe material and emotional damage that this disaster supposes for the inhabitants of the island has the entire country in suspense, but has also caused concern outside our borders.Especially, due to an old theory that said that if a great portion of the island was destabilized and fell into the Atlantic, it could cause a megatsunami.
A theory that returned to gather strength from the keyboard of Benjamin Wittes, one the experts in global governance in The Brookings Institution that wrote on Twitter the following words: “For those who are confused.The eruption of La Palma is one of the true scenarios of the disaster for the east coast because of the possibility that a large portion of the island destabilizes and falls into the Atlantic, triggering a gigantic tsunami.This is not a joke.It is something real. ”
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This thesis has its origin in Bill McGuare, director of Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Center of the College University of London (UCP), and that one of its pupils, Simon Day, spread in a documentary of National Geographic called Disaster Earth in 2005.
This document was issued by the 2 and the Twitter user @Moedetriana has rescued a fragment of just over two minutes in which the theory of a megatsunami is explained that could have fatal consequences for the world.A video that seen today gives some fear.
A theory denied by experts
Although the video has become very viral on Twitter and has aroused the concern of thousands of people, this theory has been bluntly denied by experts.Especially for the United States Geological Service (USGS), which has also invited to follow the Spanish Twitter accounts of the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (@involcan) and the National Geographic Institute (@ignspain) for those who want to stay up to date withsituation and avoid clickbait.
The Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands has remembered this week that an old summit is stable and that for a great slide like the one that defends the tsunami theory, an eruption of great magnitude should be produced simultaneously while earthquake veryabove average.
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