Paleotsunami Detectives Hunt for Ancient Disasters
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"As the wave passed Cenotaph Island it seemed to be about 50 feet high near the center of the bay and to slope up toward the sides. It passed the island about 2 1/2 minutes after it was first sighted, and reached the Badger about 1 1/2 minutes later. No lowering or other disturbance of the water around the boat was noticed before the wave arrived.
The Badger, still at anchor, was lifted up by the wave and carried across La Chaussee Spit, riding stern first just below the crest of the wave, like a surfboard. Swanson looked down on the trees growing on the spit, and believes that he was about 2 boat lengths (more than 80 feet) above their tops. The wave crest broke just outside the spit and the boat hit bottom and foundered some distance from the shore. "
We will see a lot of property destroyed across the world and large groups of (rich and poor) climate refugees moving to new and safer areas.
Current estimates are around 2 billion people impacted by 2100 - around 1/4 of the earths estimated population at that time:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/06/rising-seas-could-r...
For example, you are a nomad generally sleep in the wilderness. What are the risks of a tree branch falling on you at night over your lifetime, or lighting hitting the tree verses the risk of a hailstorm beating you down. Which provides the less risky shelter.
I would not count natural disasters and terrorism on the same scale. For the vast majority of individuals terrorism is so much more low risk that it's nearly a rounding error. Terrorism is generally a pin point. Natural disasters are 'generally' not. A hurricane will not only affect you, it will affect everything around you. All services around you can be shut down for an indefinite period of time leading to a situation where you have no food, water, or shelter.
There are also non-individual risks, such as choosing where to build a nuclear plant or hospital. Do you build your hospital, a complex that could remain there for 100+ years, in the path of a potential tsunami? Do you build it in the foothills farther away where it won't be destroyed, but in the meantime makes people go farther to reach it?
I personally am not one for having society build 'close' to the ocean. The sea has no respect for property rights, and we just love socializing the insurance of buildings put in much higher risk zones than they should be.