Is Florida ready for a tsunami?

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As if Florida needs another type of natural disaster to worry about.

That said, scientists warned for decades a tsunami could jet our way at more than 500 mph. It's happened before. Few were around in 1755, though, to document the destruction.

But if — some scientists say when — a Florida tsunami happens again, now with millions living so close to the coast, the consequences could be catastrophic. Some tsunami scenarios are way worse than the waves from the earthquake off Lisbon, Portugal that hit Florida 269 years ago.

Twenty years after the catastrophic Boxing Say Tsunami killed some 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean, tsunamis have again been in the news recently in the wake of warnings in the Pacific Northwest, after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake of California.
No tsunami was triggered by that quake, but the extreme, weird waves also have been a hot topic captivating popular culture, lately. A new Netflix series making its own waves centers on the scenario of a volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands off west Africa.

Why scientists think a tsunami will hit Florida

A mega tsunami more powerful than any recorded could clobber the Space Coast, some models predict. The extreme waves are among the low probability natural events Florida should expect and prepare for, oceanographers and geologists warn. They all agree a Florida tsunami is inevitable but spar over the potential severity and what extreme scenario is most likely to send such a tsunami our way: a distant earthquake, landslide or some other abrupt geological anomaly.

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