Sharon Hill
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STAAAAP with the Canary Island megatsunami drama!
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2013/12/13/canary-islands-tsunami/
"To generate a very large tsunami, this slide would have to happen very fast and as an essentially coherent block. Remember that this is a landslide of 500 cubic kilometres – we do not think that very, very large landslides usually behave like this. The chances are that a collapse would occur in stages over a longer time period, which would generate a much smaller wave. Most scientists recognise that the single, intact block collapsing very fast idea is theoretically possible, but that it is the extreme end-member of a wide range of scenarios, and thus is highly unlikely."
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2013/12/13/canary-islands-tsunami/
"To generate a very large tsunami, this slide would have to happen very fast and as an essentially coherent block. Remember that this is a landslide of 500 cubic kilometres – we do not think that very, very large landslides usually behave like this. The chances are that a collapse would occur in stages over a longer time period, which would generate a much smaller wave. Most scientists recognise that the single, intact block collapsing very fast idea is theoretically possible, but that it is the extreme end-member of a wide range of scenarios, and thus is highly unlikely."