I don't think we'll worry about 1 footers on Lake Michigan.
This is the lighthouse at Ludington, MI. The structure is 57' high.
Yeah, Yeah. That tsunami is going to wipe out Denver and St. Louis. And a mini-Great-Lakes-tsunami about a foot high is going to take out Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.
Ummm, I'm really torn here. Considering that if what you said came to pass, these "blue" states would become red overnight (and the U.S. crime rate drop precipitously), I'm not sure if I should be rooting for or against this...
"Yeah, Yeah. That tsunami is going to wipe out Denver and St. Louis. And a mini-Great-Lakes-tsunami about a foot high is going to take out Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland."
Not that I agree with the so call prediction, but the Great Lakes can experience something called a Seiche. Here is one example: http://www.detnews.com/2001/metro/0109/14/d06e-294082.htm . When I lived in Chicago in the late 70s I remember the life guards chasing everybody away from Lake Michigan because of a Seiche warning.
Yellowstone blows skyhigh.
I don't think we'll worry about 1 footers on Lake Michigan.
This is the lighthouse at Ludington, MI. The structure is 57' high.
Any tsunami one of the Great Lakes, might not be so mini. It would depend on the type of event that caused it. If a big meteorite/small asteroid hit Lake Michigan, Chicago would cease to exist. The same would be true for an (unlikely) major earthquake under the Lakes. It might even flood the Mississippi river, since it's tributaries come pretty close to the lake, and the tsunami could wash out the high ground, such as it is, between the Lake and the tributaries of the Mississippi. There's even a canal, that connects Lake Michigan to the Des Plaines River, a tributary of the Mississippi. I once read that during WW-II submarines were built on the Lakes, at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and then sent down the Mississippi via the canal, on floating dry docks, which the boats met at Lockport, IL.