Singapore may be vulnerable to a tsunami from the east!

ditzy SG

Totally awesome idea. Make the seas shallower on the east so the waves have more than enough distance to build up its height as it transits to shallower waters. Simply wonderful. Laughing

ditzy SG

If we really want to make singapore untouchable by mother nature, we should locate singapore on the moon. Laughing No waves, no earthquakes, no typhoons, no cyclones, no tornadoes, no blizzards, no storms.

crazy monkey SG

early warning system is enough.

the people in thailand, malaysia, india and sri lanka also didnt expect tidal waves until they hit.

by then its too late.

there were warning abt the posibility but it wasnt taken seriously.

see wat happen .....

KumSioJui SG

the idea is not to do that lah ..

the analogy is that If your kompressor going at 200km and have to run over 100 road hump wat you think will happen? will it :

a) glide over and pickup more speed
b) crash into a tree if you dun slow down?

so the same apply to the killer waves mah, if there is large and heavy object in the water at stages out to sea it will absorb the crushing forces slow down the strength so by the time reaches us is ony a tiny ripple mah.

I got a good idea, lets buy all those junk WWII aircraft carrier and fill them up with rocks and quick drying cement sink them off south china sea. Mr. Green

ditzy SG

Unfortunately, that anology does not really work with waves. Laughing By right, as the waves approach shallower waters, it'll be like a road hump. By left, it gets slower and higher.

Weike SG

geography only mentions singapore is spared from most natural disasters eg earthquake, volcano. There is no mention that singapore wont be affected by tsunami and judging by location, singapore can indeed fall prey to tsunami waves from the east....not forgetting if iceberg melts, singapore will also be flooded

KumSioJui SG

yes but higher never mind slower is main idea, if we manage to sap the strength and slow down tremendously where will it have the strength to build the waves higher? eventually the wave if no more strength will grow smaller also.

suppose we setup in stages several hundred km out to sea by the time reaches us it will not have any strength left.

I saw a documentry when I was teenager abt how china tried to tame the yellow river when they tried to build a dam for it. Initially they dumped hundreds of 25-75 ton boulders and concrete blocks it was useless as the water current was so strong it swept the boulders away and water rose so they started dumping stone blocks at different stages hundreds of kilometers away from the dam site to slow down the water and eventually they tamed it.

same concept can also apply. Wink

[email protected] SG

just the occasional micrometeorite without much of an atmosphere to burn it up on entry or to at least slow it down thru friction b4 impact.

ditzy SG

If we are going to displace our oceans and seas, where is all that water going to go? Laughing

[email protected] SG

onto dry land. so we will get swamped anyway. Laughing

ditzy SG

Why not we just rename Singapore something else? So if something does happen to Singapore, we can go:"Its Singapore, not something else, we are something else." Laughing

[email protected] SG

Laughing

Lowclassman SG

Another smart alex?

SGnewbie SG

great, so that when the tsunami comes, it will not only bring debris from the seabed, it will also bring sunken WWII aircraft carriers full of dried cement to hurl at us????

wd1 SG

let's imagine, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurs in the South China Sea, creating a tsunami that speeds westwards towards Sg.

now a look at a map will reveal that the southeastern tip of Peninsular Malaysia shields us to some extent. if a tsunami really were to hit us, what do we have on our eastern coast? the first to get hit would be Changi East Airbase, and Changi Naval Base. we'll lose lots of RSN ships and F-16s, and sadly quite a few SAF servicemen as well.

thankfully, the Changi East area is otherwise not densely populated.

even if the worst occured and the tsunami were to come further in, it would encounter the flat tarmac, airliners and buildings of Changi Airport. here the economic impact will be huge, and people will die as well - but the airport buidings are obviously strongly built, and will protect the people inside.

even if the airport will have to close, we won't be totally cut off - we could reopen Paya Lebar and Seletar to commercial traffic.

we would definitely suffer. but we wouldn't be totally knocked out. life will go on.

reyes SG

still cannot visualise how Tsunami can hit singapore badly.
firstly, if Volcanic activitries from phillipines really hit, it at most will hit some singapore light house. and east coast from Malaysia. almost all our changi was shelter by Pen. malaysia.

if hit from south, there are singapore southern island such as Sentosa indonesian bintan, batam to take the hit.

if one really wana see huge wave now, please go desaru now, wave hitting the beach as high as 2m in some beaches with strong winds and current. some part of the beaches can even be suitable for boardsurfing for this part of the season. play at your own risk.

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