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(Ontario will never be hit with giant 8 meter Tsunamis after a 9.0 earthquake.)

I am knocking on a lot of wood for you, friend.

I've heard that a big earthquake hits the Ottawa Valley every century-and-a-half or so that the people there are totally unprepared for, but tsunamis? C'mon now, if a tsunami was big enough to hit Ontario, I think the tsunami would probably be the least of our worries---I think we'd be looking at The End Of The World.

In a few thousand or a few million years, Ontario might well have a coastline! Not that he'll have to worry about tsunamis then.

Ontario will never be hit with a tsunami. They're ocean waves. [[edit ok, maybe on hudson bay. my geography isn't that good sometimes]]

Seches though ... they're the lake version. That could happen.

It saves a lot of headaches for people googling or wikiing for a word if you spell it correctly for them. The word is "seiche".

Funny, I googled for it and got a few hits where it was spelled both ways in the same page.

Funny, I googled for it and only got hits for "Seche - The World's Finest Top Coat", "SECHE - Sioux Empire Christian Home Educators", translations of the French word sèche, seche.net blogfolio...only after googling "seche lakes" did I get any hits---two. The first of which used the spelling "seiche" 54 times and "seche" once. I do believe that qualifies as a typo.

Anyways, wikiing "seche" won't even get you a helpful pointer in the right direction. So for those, like me, who wanted to know what one of those things was, Wikipedia's got a good page on it under "seiche".

I live in Tokyo dude.

Not that it improves my chances to escape an earthquake though.

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