Yes, I saw the BBC2 programme last night, and what a dog’s breakfast it was! They spent too much time on the hackneyed jittery, stacticky, false coloured camerawork and not enough on the science and simulations. So we know that some sort of tsunami would reach the south coast, but how high? I heard 75m, 7-10metres, and “the size of a two-storey house” all in the same programme. Perhaps they might have bothered to create a map of the likely efects of a best, medium, and worst-case scenario on the south coast?
Well, it may happen, but the odds are about the same as me being happy. The thing about Low Probability High impact events is that you’d have to be reaaly unlucky to witness one. But that said, I wonder what contingency plans exist for such an eventuality, and what would you do if you heard a tsunami was on its way?