# Gravity Waves: Chance of Gravity Tsunami?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-waves-chance-of-gravity-tsunami/746081>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-waves-chance-of-gravity-tsunami/746081 "2016-02-14T01:42:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-waves-chance-of-gravity-tsunami/746081/21 "2016-02-14T23:37:34Z")

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And I thought geologists like Dr Dibble and myself were being called out.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity-waves-chance-of-gravity-tsunami/746081/22 "2016-02-15T01:04:16Z")

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And just a pedantic point here, what we’re talking about here are called “gravitational waves”. A “gravity wave”, by contrast, is any wave where gravity is the restoring force acting on the medium. The waves on the surface of a body of water, for instance, are an example of a gravity wave.

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