Far be it from me to be an alarmist, but I can’t help it: Dutchsinse’s YouTube channel has been the place to be ever since that huge earthquake that hit the east coast of Japan last weekend.

Want to feel your blood go cold? Check out his latest entry and consider what he’s suggesting: a frightening scenario whereby the entire east-facing coast of Japan collapses into the sea. Preposterous, you say? Consider the geography: within one hundred fifty miles or so, the east coast of Japan goes from sandy beach to 20,000 feet below sea level, and that the literally hundreds of earthquakes (582 to be exact!), anywhere from 4s to small 7s, have been happening along Japan’s east coast along and within fissures on the eastern end of the shelf Japan sits on since last weekend’s monster.

Dutchsinse’s hypothesy is that these earthquakes are resulting from that shelf chipping away, and that were it to collapse the results would be catastrophic, almost incalculabe to measure. Obviously, there would be huge and immediate loss of life. Just as important, however, is that the tsumani that would result from such a large area of land falling into the sea would have grave implications across the Pacific all the way to the West Coast. How high a tsunami? Ten feet? Thirty? Fifty? Higher? Think about a tsunami capable of producing water that high rushing towards Hawaii and the West Coast at hundreds of miles an hour and you get the picture.

And it’s not like something like this hasn’t happened before – I remember seeing a program on cable (no, it wasn’t on PBS) discussing how one of the huge bays now in Alaska was created by that very same kind of thing – a huge piece of land collapsed, putting the surrounding areas forever under water.

Is Dutchsince an alarmist? Perhaps. But keep in mind he was the one who, just days before the massive Japan quake, predicted something big was going to happen there soon.

Maybe I’ll get my waterfront property here in Gilbert, Arizona after all…