Oct 22, 2012 · Those earthquakes in the above article were caused because groundwater was removed from an active fault line, causing slippage. Maine has no active fault lines.

Maine is actually rated low for natural disasters. Heavy wind and lots of wet snow is about it. Reply reply More replies Brains_4_Soup •

Jun 10, 2024 · I have another comment that notes the occasional high-end tornado, but there is no active tectonic fault under Lake Erie like there is up the west coast, and any earthquakes that occur from subsurface activity is un-impactful, as the Richter scale is logarithmic and the strongest of those earthquakes seems to be around a 4, which puts it at ...

Nov 4, 2017 · Earthquakes which generate tsunami do so by displacing water, which means there needs to be deformation of the ocean floor (i.e. a surface rupture of the fault that produced the earthquake). For example, in the Tohoku earthquake which caused the large tsunami in Japan in 2011, portions of the sea floor were vertically displaced by ~10 meters. One could imagine if …

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Oct 17, 2012 · Seismic activity in areas like these seems to be related to the regional stress fields, with the earthquakes concentrated in regions of crustal weakness". The same would apply to Maine, since there is no fault line there either.

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