This started as a comment, but it's too long, so I'll just post it here

This hurricane has me thinking. The end of the world is rapidly approaching. There have been so many natural disasters in the last few years that it's impossible to ignore. Have you ever read in a history book about a tsunami that killed 30,000 people? What about hurricanes that killed 1000s? I certainly haven't.

I saw a Discovery Channel special about an island in the Canary Islands that is essentially a giant active volcano... the island is on the verge of collapsing... sort of. Over the next few eruptions, there's a very large portion of the island so unstable that it will actually break away from the island and slide into the sea, a massive landslide. This massive chunk of rock will create a forcewave that will create what scientists have dubbed a "Mega-tsunami" (A terribly unscientific name). The wave will travel at roughly 800mph across the Atlantic Ocean towards the eastern seaboard of the U.S. The wave produced will be somewhere between hundreds of feet high and thousands of feet high. It will destroy the entire eastern seaboard. It will hit with such destructive force that the wave will go 15-30 miles inland, simply washing away millions of people. Honestly, I'm surprised that terrorist organizations haven't attempted to trigger this event early. It would be devastating, and from a terroristic standpoint, extremely effective.

It could happen in 100 years... or it could happen tomorrow. That's the odd thing... no one really knows. It will more than likely happen the next time the volcano erupts, but it may take a few eruptions before it goes. It last erupted in 1971, and before that in 1949.

New York, Boston, Miami, V.I. Bahama... all destroyed.

These mega-tsunamis don't happen very often... the last one occurred about 4,000 years ago.

This will happen, there's absolutely no question about it. The only question is when. And no I'm not trying to be dramatic. It really will happen, it's just a question of when.