In the four-part disaster series, A Norwegian family vacationing on La Palma faces disaster when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption.
The show quickly shot to up the streamer's Top 10 list, leading plenty of people to wonder: is this based on a true story, and could it actually happen?
Keep reading to find out more...
No, it's not based on a true story, but La Palma is very much real and the tsunami theory has been explored before by scientists.
La Palma is a real place viewers can visit: it's one of the Canary Islands, a group of Spanish islands off the coast of northwest Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.
It's also nicknamed the "Isla Bonita" ("beautiful island"), via People.
The theory that collapsing volcanoes could create "mega-tsunamis" was previously explored: in 2001, an academic paper was published that suggested the possibility of the La Palma volcano collapsing and causing tsunami waves up to 80 feet high along the east coasts of North and South America, via U.S. Geographical Society.
However, ocean floor mapping and tsunami modeling simulations show that volcano collapses happen in increments rather than in one piece. Therefore, if La Palma's volcano did collapse, the USGS theorizes that the waves would more likely be between 3 and 7 feet high by the time they hit the United States.
A volcano also erupted recently there: La Palma's Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted in September of 2021, marking the first major eruption on the island in 50 years, the New York Times reports.
It lasted 85 days and 8 hours, the longest eruption ever recorded in the island's history, via NPR.
There were no fatalities, but 7,000 people were evacuated, and over 3,000 properties were destroyed, along with hundreds of acres of banana plantation farmland via BBC, and residents who remained on the island were forced to stay inside due to toxic gas from molten rock that leaked into the ocean.
In addition to 2021, the volcano also erupted in 1949 and 1971. The last tremors from the eruption were felt on December 13, 2021.