No because in those days they were drowned at birth rather than by tidal waves. Or if nobility given a rather extreme form of colonic irrigation, with a hot poker.
This panic about Tenerife stems from that documentary years ago where they speculated that another tidal wave could hit the West of England, if the mountain collapses into the sea. Apparently something like that happened about 700 years ago and the whole of Somerset was inundated for weeks...