While the Biden administration stays laser-focused on climate hysteria, DEI quotas, and trying to regulate gas stoves out of existence, a real threat is quietly looming on America’s western horizon—a potential mega tsunami that could devastate coastal communities from California to Alaska.
According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have sounded the alarm over a powerful earthquake that could erupt along the Cascadia subduction zone — a massive fault line stretching from Northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. If it hits, experts warn it could unleash a catastrophic tsunami, permanently reshaping the U.S. coastline.
This isn’t some Hollywood disaster movie. It’s a scientifically grounded risk with a 15% chance of occurring within the next 50 years, and the consequences could be horrifying. Towns in northern California, Oregon, and Washington could be wiped out as rising sea levels and sinking coastal land collide with a wall of water powered by Mother Nature herself.
Yet while credible scientists ring the alarm bell, the federal government seems more interested in managing pronouns in national parks than preparing our coastal states for a real natural disaster.
Lead study author Tina Dura, a geoscientist at Virginia Tech, warns that the combination of an earthquake and coastal subsidence could flood entire regions and set recovery efforts back by decades. Some areas could sink by as much as six and a half feet, putting low-lying communities directly in the tsunami’s path.
And it’s not just the mainland U.S. that’s in the crosshairs. Alaska and Hawaii are also highly vulnerable.
In Alaska, rapidly melting glaciers—yes, real effects from natural climate cycles, not just human-caused emissions—are destabilizing steep slopes, increasing the risk of massive landslides that could send millions of tons of rock crashing into the sea. That’s a tsunami trigger just waiting for the right seismic nudge.
Hawaii, too, faces its own unique tsunami risk. The islands’ volcanic foundations, particularly on the Big Island, are notoriously unstable. When lava builds up and then collapses, it can unleash walls of water hundreds of feet tall. That’s not theoretical—it’s happened before. A mega wave measuring over 1,000 feet is believed to have hit Lanai about 105,000 years ago. Today, with Kilauea and Mauna Loa both active, the conditions for another catastrophic event are alive and well.
So where is the federal preparedness plan? Where’s FEMA? Where’s the multi-billion-dollar “Green New Deal”-sized investment in infrastructure to harden vulnerable towns, reinforce evacuation routes, or at least inform residents of this credible danger?
Americans don’t need more virtue-signaling from Washington. They need leadership that takes threats seriously—especially those that come not from social media posts or microaggressions, but from the earth itself.
If the federal government doesn’t shift priorities soon, Americans may find themselves facing a mega tsunami—and wondering why no one in charge ever bothered to prepare.
