# N.A. West Coast tsunami set off earthquakes?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 26, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-a-west-coast-tsunami-set-off-earthquakes/305657 "2005-05-26T20:12:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-a-west-coast-tsunami-set-off-earthquakes/305657/1 "2005-05-26T20:12:00Z")

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This

[http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1024](http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1024)

discusses an asteroid going for a swim in the Pacific and potentialy creating a Tsunami. Would such an event have a potential to cause an earth quake in S. Cali? They calculate damage from the wave but could it trigger the big one?