India, Nov. 8 -- A massive "megatsunami" could wipe out the US East Coast within hours as an unstable island volcano in Spain's Canary Islands could splinter and fall into the sea, a scientist has warned, according to the New York Post. However, whether such a disaster could occur, and if at all it will, remains an open scientific question.

Volcanologist Professor Bill McGuire has been monitoring Cumbre Vieja, a volcano that has the potential to create a deadly transatlantic tsunami, according to an article he published in BBC Science Focus. The increasing concern centers on a huge wall of rock, also known as a "flank". McGuire said that the flank is moving toward the sea that would displace a biblical amount of water, should it collapse...