Tsunami in Shetland(s)

It would be interesting to know how many people would have died if tsunami would hit Shetland(s). Any ideas?>

What size of Tsunami were you thinkin of?

Cheers

I'm afraid you'll have to be more specific neb. From what direction and of what level? Compared to the tsunami's that have hit in the past?

Or if you mean a really big tsunami, like from a large meteor strike: ±23,000.

It would be interesting to know...

Why?

Now that I come to think of it, the answer is a proven zero. Two seismic events in the past five years would have spawned tsunamis, as such, and neither tsunami was even noticed, let alone fatal.

 

What size of Tsunami were you thinkin of?

 

Cheers

be specific otherwise no reply (H=50m) haaa aaaaaa.....

read it:As with earthquakes, several attempts have been made to set up scales of tsunami intensity or magnitude to allow comparison between different events.[26]

Intensity scales

The first scales used routinely to measure the intensity of tsunami were the Sieberg-Ambraseys scale, used in the Mediterranean Sea and the Imamura-Iida intensity scale, used in the Pacific Ocean. The latter scale was modified by Soloviev, who calculated the Tsunami intensity I according to the formula:

I=1/2+log2 Hav

where Hav is the average wave height along the nearest coast. This scale, known as the Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scale, is used in the global tsunami catalogues compiled by the NGDC/NOAA and the Novosibirsk Tsunami Laboratory as the main parameter for the size of the tsunami.

Magnitude scales

The first scale that genuinely calculated a magnitude for a tsunami, rather than an intensity at a particular location was the ML scale proposed by Murty & Loomis based on the potential energy.[26] Difficulties in calculating the potential energy of the tsunami mean that this scale is rarely used. Abe introduced the tsunami magnitude scale Mt, calculated from,

Mt=alogh+blog R=D

where h is the maximum tsunami-wave amplitude (in m) measured by a tide gauge at a distance R from the epicenter, a, b & D are constants used to make the Mt scale match as closely as possible with the moment magnitude scale.[27]

be specific otherwise no reply

I'll try again.

It would be interesting to know...

Why would it be interesting to know how many people would die in Shetland due to a Tsunami?

The OP seems to be obsessed with reducing Shetland's population. First gunmen, now tsunamis. what's next?

he must feel the need for space.

The OP seems to be obsessed with reducing Shetland's population. First gunmen, now tsunamis. what's next?

neb... don't forget the Lava Flows coming down Ronas Hill...

 

What size of Tsunami were you thinkin of?

 

Cheers

 

be specific otherwise no reply (H=50m) haaa aaaaaa.....read it:As with earthquakes, several attempts have been made to set up scales of tsunami intensity or magnitude to allow comparison between different events.[26]

 

Intensity scales

 

The first scales used routinely to measure the intensity of tsunami were the Sieberg-Ambraseys scale, used in the Mediterranean Sea and the Imamura-Iida intensity scale, used in the Pacific Ocean. The latter scale was modified by Soloviev, who calculated the Tsunami intensity I according to the formula:

 

I=1/2+log2 Hav

 

where Hav is the average wave height along the nearest coast. This scale, known as the Soloviev-Imamura tsunami intensity scale, is used in the global tsunami catalogues compiled by the NGDC/NOAA and the Novosibirsk Tsunami Laboratory as the main parameter for the size of the tsunami.

 

Magnitude scales

 

The first scale that genuinely calculated a magnitude for a tsunami, rather than an intensity at a particular location was the ML scale proposed by Murty & Loomis based on the potential energy.[26] Difficulties in calculating the potential energy of the tsunami mean that this scale is rarely used. Abe introduced the tsunami magnitude scale Mt, calculated from,

 

Mt=alogh+blog R=D

where h is the maximum tsunami-wave amplitude (in m) measured by a tide gauge at a distance R from the epicenter, a, b & D are constants used to make the Mt scale match as closely as possible with the moment magnitude scale.[27]

Is this not a reply!

Past tsunami striking Shetland were not caused by earthquake but by underwater avalanche

see

http://www.landforms.eu/shetland/tsunami%20deposits.htm

It would be interesting to know how many people would have died if tsunami would hit Shetland(s). Any ideas?>

If the result was to move Shetlnd someplace warmer, I really don't care.

It would be interesting to know how many people would have died if tsunami would hit Shetland(s). Any ideas?>

Plenty..try Smoking a Kipper instead..

Plenty..try Smoking a Kipper instead..