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This 2011 National Geographic documentary examines the possibility of a La Palma mega tsunami caused by a volcanic eruption and landslide into the sea. A La Palma tsunami could be more devastating than the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, caused by an earthquake and megathrust landslip under the Indian Ocean that killed 250,000 people. Or the 2011 Pacific tsunami caused by a 9.1 earthquake and megathrust landslip off the east coast of Japan that disabled three nuclear reactors. Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of geological time bombs. Once unleashed, they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a mega tsunami. More massive than a regular tsunami, mega tsunamis are caused by volcanic landslides and cross oceans to ravage countries on the other side of the world. Scientists now realise that the next mega tsunami is likely to originate on the volcanic island of La Palma. A La Palma mega tsunami would race across the Atlantic at the speed of a jetliner devastating the Caribean and the East Coast of
