{"id":48732,"date":"2014-02-13T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/caribbean-faces-threat-of-biggest-tsunami-ever-recorded"},"modified":"2014-02-13T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T14:11:24","slug":"caribbean-faces-threat-of-biggest-tsunami-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/02\/caribbean-faces-threat-of-biggest-tsunami-ever-recorded","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Faces Threat of Biggest Tsunami Ever Recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-48749\" alt=\"caribbean-tsunami_warning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/caribbean-tsunami_warning.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/>The Caribbean could be at risk from a mega-tsunami that scientists warn could devastate coastlines from Florida to Brazil following a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The monster wave generated by part of a mountain collapsing into the sea would be the biggest ever recorded and would be an unstoppable force, travelling at speeds of up to 500mph.<\/p>\n<p>The massive wall of water would likely make first landfall on the West Saharan coast of Morocco, where the wave could measure as much as 330ft from trough to crest.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest destruction was nevertheless expected in the built-up coastal areas of the Caribbean, Florida and Brazil, according to a new forecast by Dr Simon Day of the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London.<\/p>\n<p>The tsunami could reach heights of 130ft to 164ft throughout the region and travel several miles inland, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbean360.com\/news\/1106618.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at www.caribbean360.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that a mega-tsunami could devastate coastlines from Florida to Brazil following a volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":48749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,76,122],"class_list":["post-48732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-environment-2","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}