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Still though from a landslide, even a giant one as mentioned your going to have the wave dissipate as it spreads, the idea La Palma collasping is going to hit the east coast of the USA with a megatsunami is not widely supported, its more one guy hyping it because it naturally draws media interest and some TV docs were made about it.
The 2004 tsunami was able to have a big effect as far as Sri Lanka because a massive area of sea floor was jacked up, the wave wasn't just spreading from one point but from an area of sea floor almost 1000 miles long. That was I believe in terms of total energy the largest earthquake since measurements began, some higher local results have happened but not over the same area.
The east coast of the US is nearly as far away from La Palma as Sri Lanka is from Indonesia. Yet models predict the tsunami on the US coast could be 5 to 10 m tall which is almost the height the 2004 tsunami struck Indonesia. It's not a megatsunami, but it could be bad.
The 2004 was not the highest energy earthquake ever recorded.