Not great.....

So in my fascination of all things earthquake and tsunami related, I wondered - could something of that magnitude happen here?  Granted - I live on a ridiculously thin strip of land that dangles out into both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean like a sore thumb.  Florida - specifically South Florida - is also incredibly flat, at or around sea level and from about the point of about 15 miles inland, completely encompassed by marshes - a la The Everglades.  Not to mention we are home to a nuclear power plant at Turkey Point - which I don't even want to think about right now.   

So, during my research over the past couple of days, I stumbled across the phrase "MEGATSUNAMI" - which is definitely not something I wanted to discover.  Per Wikipedia (my source of all things factual - even though anybody can write anything) - megatsunamis originate from large scale landslides or impact events - not so much earthquakes.  Why is that important?  Well - because of the fact that the Canary Islands house the Cumbre Vieja on the volcanic ocean island of La Palma.  The Cumbre Vieja volcano is currently in a dormant stage, but will almost certainly erupt again in the future - and nobody knows when that might happen.  Apparently due to previous volcanic activity, part of the actual mountain has slipped downwards towards the Atlantic Ocean and there is a risk of future volcanic activity causing complete failure. 

If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) at the island, and a likely height of around 50 metres (164 ft) at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later. Tens of millions of lives would be lost as New York, Boston, Miami, Havana, and many other cities near the Atlantic coast are leveled.

Not great.  And definitely not what I wanted to find out.  I was really just looking for confirmation that everything is fine and dandy in South Florida as far as tsunamis go - I mean, sure we have hurricanes, tornados, etc. - but why should we also be threatened with not just tsunamis but megatsunamis.  It just doesn't seem fair.