Watch the skies! Part 97.

[NotAllThere]

If the asteroid is a big as the image on the article, I think tsunamis will be the least of our worries.

[zeitghost]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain--a...7.html#hzTDpHa



It must be a slow news day or sommat. 1 in 10,000 chance in the next 85 years.

Stone me.

As it were.

Britain is at risk from an ‘asteroid tsunami’, where a rock falling from space creates a wall of water which kills hundreds of thousands of people living in coastal towns.

University of Southampton experts have created a map showing where asteroids are most likely to fall - and found that Britain is at risk of being swamped by deadly waves caused by space rocks.

Asteroids falling near Britain in the Atlantic or North Sea could trigger a devastating impact.

There is a one in 10,000 chance a rock could splash into the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk within the next 85 years, according to the researchers.

Dr Hugh Lewis of the University of Southampton, added: ‘It’s very easy to be flippant because of the Hollywood effect but it is a real risk.

‘When you look at global vulnerability Britain is at very high risk. You might think that is odd because we are a very small country but we have a high population density on the coastline so that means we are vulnerable to an impact in the Atlantic Ocean.