La Palma Demolition Project

The La Palma Demolition Project is a proposed military demolition of the La Palma volcano caldera located on La Palma island in the Canary Islands.

Mega-Tsunami
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC 2 Channel) transmitted “Mega-tsunami; Wave of Destruction”, which suggested that a future failure of the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja would cause a "mega-tsunami." Day et al. (1999) and Ward and Day (2001) hypothesize that during a future unascertained eruption, the western half of the Cumbre Vieja – approximately 500 km3 with an estimated mass 1.5 x 1015 kg – will catastrophically fail in a massive gravitational landslide and enter the Atlantic Ocean generating a so called "mega-tsunami." The debris will continue to travel, as a debris flow, along the ocean floor. Computer modelling indicates that the resulting initial wave may attain a local amplitude (height) in excess of 600 metres (1,969 ft) and an initial peak to peak height that approximates to 2 kilometres (1 mi), and travel at about 1,000 kilometres per hour (621 mph) (approximately the speed of a jet aircraft), inundating the African coast in about 1 hour, the southern coast of England in about 3.5 hours, and the eastern seaboard of North America in about 6 hours, by which time the initial wave would have subsided into a succession of smaller ones each about 30 metres (98 ft) to 60 metres (197 ft) high. These may surge to several hundred metres in height and be several kilometres apart but retaining their original speed. The models of Day et al and Ward and Day suggest that it could inundate up to 25 kilometres (16 mi) inland. This would greatly damage or destroy cities along the entire North American eastern seaboard, and tens of millions would be killed as Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., Miami, and many other cities that are located near the Atlantic coast are leveled.

Demolition
The demolition of the Cumbre Vieja would be controlled in a manner that it would be taken apart in sections and dumped into the ocean. The operation would take nearly one year. Companies including Infrastructure Advancement Corporation have offered assistance to the project. It would be initially lead by the Union of Everett's Marine Corps army of engineers. Everett has asked the Franco-German Commonwealth to provide aid with its nuclear carving technology to aid in the removal of sections and dividing the Cumbre Vieja ridge from the rest of the volcano caldera.