There is a fault under Lake Erie, if an earthquake happened could it cause a tsumani type wave?
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The highest wave on Lake Erie in 2005 was 8.2 feet, not terribly impressive.  A lake, even one as large as Erie, lacks the large scale movement of water that can generate the rogue waves sometimes seen on the opean seas.  For the same reason, lack of large scale movement, a significant tsunami could probably not happen on the lake.  A tsunami has a wavelenth of hundreds of miles, which means that Lake Erie doesn't have enough space for a tsunami to even rock back and forth once.
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There are areas that are more prone to Tsunamis than other areas.  Besides the seismic activity factor, the shape of the ocean floor has a lot to do with whether a tsunami hits a coastal area and how bad the tsunami is.  For example, in the 1964 Alaska earthquake, a tsunami wave went south and struck the California coast.  Damage ranged from minor (boats knocked against the dock) to devestating as in Crescent City where 30 city blocks were covered and 11 people died.  The seabed off of Crescent City forms a shallow slope the forces the pressure of the tsunami up into the classic "tidal wave" configuration associated with tsunamis.
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I don't know for sure, I believe it mainly affects the Arkansas and Missouri area.  It is likely related to the Ozarks, and caused that huge earthquake in the early 1900s near St. Louis.\n\nTo answer the other question, there is also a San Andreas fault system and plate in California but that is losely related to this fault system.
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Earthquakes are caused by the shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates. We don't get earthquakes like the West coast here on the east coast because there simply isn't as much shifting.
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When the "Big One" hits LA, it is very possible that small (less than 1 square mile) portions of the cliffs from Santa Monica to Malibu may fall in the ocean, but NO catastrophic (i.e. a city-wide or state-wide collapse) can possibly occur.  The primary reason is that all rocks have a finite strength and ability to accumulate stress.  Rocks along any fault will fail (causing an earthquake) before they can accumulate the amount of stress required to generate an earthquake capable of causing anything outside a mile or so of the coast to fall into the ocean.  That is the reason you don't see earthquakes greater in magnitude than 9-9.5....because rocks break and release their energy in the form of an earthquake before they can accumulate the stress required for a magnitude 10 or greater.
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i am not a seismologist but i think the movement of plates create holes and cracks beneath the crust that may cause the formation of openings where the hot gases and great pressures pass through and for several months or years a violent volcano may explode!
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the beginning of an earthquake are foreshocks. these foreshocks have P-waves, s-waves and surface waves attached to it.
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Tsunamis have always occurred - any time there is a major undersea disturbance caused by a massive earthquake or undersea landslide. There is clear evidence, for example, of a major tsunami occurring 9,000 years ago off the coast of Scotland. \n\nTsunami means "harbour wave" in Japanese. It refers to the fact that the huge wave only rises up when the large wave meets very shallow water near coasts or in bays. Japan has been hit several times by tsunamis (although not in the last few decades).
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EARTHQUAKE WAVES\n\nEarthquakes produce three kinds of shock waves.\n\nBody waves move through the Earth from the focus.\n\nSurface waves travel in the outer layers of the Earth.\n\nFree oscillations are the movement of the entire Earth as the result of the largest earthquakes.\n\nBody waves are composed of two types of waves.\n\nP or primary waves are waves where the rock is push back and forth through compression.\n\nS or secondary waves are waves where the rock is pulled sideways.\n\nP and S waves have been used to understand the composition of the interior of the Earth.\n\nThese waves take different tracks and velocities depending on the density and elasticity of the material they are passing through.\n\nS waves do not pass through liquids so the inability of the the outer core to carry S waves would suggest the presence of a liquid core.\n\nAt the Earths surface earthquake waves can sometimes be seen causing the surface to oscillate.\n\nIn oceans the wave energy can be transferred into the water to form tsunami.
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Most earthquakes are causally related to compressional or tensional stresses built up at the margins of the huge moving lithospheric plates that make up the earth's surface (see lithosphere). The immediate cause of most shallow earthquakes is the sudden release of stress along a fault, or fracture in the earth's crust, resulting in movement of the opposing blocks of rock past one another. These movements cause vibrations to pass through and around the earth in wave form, just as ripples are generated when a pebble is dropped into water. Volcanic eruptions, rockfalls, landslides, and explosions can also cause a quake, but most of these are of only local extent. Shock waves from a powerful earthquake can trigger smaller earthquakes in a distant location hundreds of miles away if the geologic conditions are favorable.
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If tectonic plates move underwater it is possible to get a Tsunami (Means harbour Wave in Japanese) anywhere assuming the conditions are right.\nGenerally Tectonic plate shifts have to occur in the up/down motion (Regional uplift or subsidence) to cause a Tsunami. Once the underwater wave hits shallow water it will raise the sealevel due to the force of the underwater wave causing a Tsunami.\n\nThe West coast of the US would be at most risk from a Tsunami due to the Pacific rim being a hot bed of Tectonic  plate activity, in fact they already have a Pacific Tsunami early warning system (USGS).\n\nI am no expert but have seen countless documentaries and read books on the subject.
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Check to following link to know more about Tsunami.\n\nIt's not possible to accurately predict plate tectonics  currently.
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An earthquake occurs where the stress and strain on the fault pane ruptures or slips. If we take the San Andreas fault for an example, it is at the edge of two tectonic plates. One of these plates is moving up the other down. Both plates are loading the fault plane with massive amounts of stored energy which when it reached a critial point 'gives way'. Think of it this way, you have two american football players (these can each be a side of the fault plane) facing each other and they get down to tackle (this cane be the stress and strain). There will come a point where one player gives way to the other player; this is the critial point where the strain and stress becomes too much to handle, the result an earthquake! However I gave the example of the S.A fault which is at a plate boundry, but bear in mind that eartquakes can occur where ever there are weakness in the rocks.
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*\nYes! The Hoosier state has trembled in the wake of earth waves generated by powerful earthquakes in the past, and will, no doubt, tremble again in quakes that are yet to come. These pages briefly describe earthquakes in our past, what causes our earthquakes, what is being done to reduce losses that will result from future quakes, and what you should do before, during, and after an earthquake.\n\n\nEarthquakes in Indiana  [New Window] \nArticle about the history and future of earthquakes in Indiana.\nVerified by a Netscape Security Partner: Netscape Security Center http://igs.indiana.edu/geology/earthquakes/eqinindiana/index.cfm
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Extremely unlikely. I've never heard of any man made earthquakes.
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The last years Tsunami was cause by the 2 plates breaking underneath the Phi Phi islands @ 8 15am. It caused the ground to rise up to 40 feet for 750 miles, which cause an earthquake of 9.5 on the scale. They are predicting that the next country to be hit with a Tsunami is Samaliya. And US is next... Oregon, Washington and all NW states, BEWARE. \nAMERICA'S TSUNAMI, ARE WE NEXT? When they cannot predict, however, they say it might be in the next 1000 years or it might happen tommorow.\nThe funny thing is that they said the break in the plates occured in the Indian ocean. They first checked for landslides, found none, no proof that any has occured in the last 10 years.
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An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes result from the dynamic release of elastic strain energy that radiates seismic waves. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, planar zones of deformation within the Earth's upper crust. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. The Earth's lithosphere is a patch work of plates in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics). Earthquakes occur where the stress resulting from the differential motion of these plates exceeds the strength of the crust. The highest stress (and possible weakest zones) are most often found at the boundaries of the tectonic plates and hence these locations are where the majority of earthquakes occur. Events located at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes (see New Madrid Seismic Zone). Earthquakes related to plate tectonics are called tectonic earthquakes. Most earthquakes are tectonic, but they also occur in volcanic regions and as the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as reservoir induced seismicity, mining and the removal or injection of fluids into the crust. Seismic waves including some strong enough to be felt by humans can also be caused by explosions (chemical or nuclear), landslides, and collapse of old mine shafts, though these sources are not strictly earthquakes.