No, Amos - Tenerife is also in the Canary Isles, but a different island from La Palma - here are two more sites about the disaster that is waiting for us some time in the future (tonight or in a hundred years, but it's coming): Why the only certainly about the La Palma tsunami is that it WILL happen, and Evaluation of the threat of mega tsunami generation from postulated massive slope failures of island stratovolcanoes

The point is not that we should turn our attention from the present disaster, and doing what we can to help, but that we should be even more motivated to help out by the awareness that some time it is going to be us needing the help.

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£50 million pounds for the UK works out at about £1 per head, not exactly a sum of money that would put much strain on most of us. The same would be true if the US were to up its contribution to the same level, and stumped up £300 million.

I would hope, and anticipate, that ordinary Americans dipping their hands in their pocket will come up with more money than that.