This likely would even put my own home underwater because we are at about 150 feet above sea level I figure now. When we bought this house I wanted to be that high in case a 100 foot tall Tsunami hit the California coast like it did Banda Aceh in Indonesia in 2004. So, when we bought this house it was to withstand a 100 foot high Tsunami which are very common on the Pacific Ocean being on the "Ring of Fire" volcanically and earthquake wise speaking. A 8.0 or a 9.0 earthquake originating under the ocean can bring a Tsunami this size. But, nothing is going to protect from 200 feet elevation of the ocean itself if Antarctica melts off. Then we also expect 50 to 75 feet from Greeenland melting too. So, that means about 300 feet elevation of oceans is expected in the next few hundred years. Then if you add Ocean surges during storms add another 25 to 50 feet of that sometimes as this water goes inland for miles and miles during storms.
Even smaller tsunamis killed over 30,000 people in Japan in 2011. And the one that hit Bandah Aceh killed 250,000 people in various countries in the area of Indonesia, Thailand and India in 2004. IF you are interested there are videos of these tsunamis hitting in 2004 in Indonesia and in Japan in 2011 at places like youtube.com
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Antarctica locks up 90 percent of the world's fresh water as ice
and would raise sea levels by about 60 meters (200 ft) if it were
all to melt, meaning scientists are concerned to know even about
extremes around the fringes.
The heat record for the broader Antarctic region, defined as
anywhere south of 60 degrees latitude, was 19.8°C (67.6°F) on
Jan. 30, 1982 on Signy Island in the South Atlantic, it said.
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