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2024-12-07 13:37:44 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0AC3E7FBB4054898DCA94710A46DA3078879558507E1748C63854C91F7A43A05
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The 5 Dec 2024 California earthquake did not produce a tsunami because it was too small and a strike-slip event, which cannot produce the vertical displacement of the seafloor necessary for tsunamis. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-it-about-earthquake-causes-a-tsunami https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75095651/executive Publicly available seismic data clearly shows it was not an explosion: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-you-tell-difference-between-explosion-and-earthquake-seismogram https://www.iris.edu/app/station_monitor/#2024-12-05T00:00:00/RE-MTCL3/map/
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