In article , nospam_nov03
@jhall.co.uk says...
I think the UK East coast is at greater risk than the west. There is a
geological record of tsunami's along the East coast which is, iirc,
particularly good along the Firth of Forth and Tay valleys.

I shouldn't have thought that the North Sea or the area to its north was
very geologically active, so I'm rather surprised. Are you sure that
these were true tsunamis rather than storm surges?


Yes. The seabed around Scandinavia is pretty much like Scandinavia
itself. There are many steep precipices which, when they collapse, can
cause tsunami's. The reference I have repeatedly heard wrt North Sea
Tsunami's is the Storegga slide which apparently caused a really big one
in the distant past.

A google for "north sea tsunami storegga" produced a lot of hits which I
will have to trawl through later.

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Alan LeHun