Do earthquakes occur under water?

Oh, yeah, there are plenty of earthquakes under water. There are faults under the ocean just as there are on dry land. You're exactly right, that's how tsunamis happen.

I never heard it before.. I only came to know when that disaster thing happened.. Quakes do occur underwater, and when they come they are very dreadful, even stronger than quakes on Earth..

They most certainly do occur under water and thats exactly why tsunami's occur. I think most of them can be tracked and people can be warned but theres such vast amounts of oceans that all of them probably cant be tracked all of the time. I heard about one on CBC that had occured and they tracked it for a day or so before reporting that it would not result in a tsunami.

Yes the earthquake occurs under water also. The reason behind it depends upon the understanding of how earthquake occurs?? Earth crust is divided into many tectonic plates and these are always moving across each other. whenever the pressure increases while the plates are moving in opposite direction then the earthquake occurs. If you have observed that most of the boundaries of the tectonic plates are under the sea hence more earthquake occurs under the sea than on the surface !!

yes they do i thnk but not sure lol. i need to watch animal planet or some channel which gives explanation on it. but under water earthquakes happen. thx. good day!

yes earthquakes may occur at any part of the earth wether it is land or ocean. this is bcoz of the distturbances in the core of the earth which plunges lava out from very sensitive parts

Ha Didnt you heared of the great Tsunami , the huge waves in the sea which devastated souther India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. That was caused by the earthquake under water.

yes i saw sunami..... i belongs 2 Andaman nd Nicobar Island ..... as u guys very well knw its a sumani effectd place ....... yes Earth quakes occur under water .... a type is sunami....

I think earthquakes do occur in water... but we dont feel it because we are in land...

Yes earthquakes keep on happening under sea water , this is what causes Tsunami waves.

Underwater earthquakes are very common and man made the connection between the big waves and the earthquakes a long time back. Japanese from a long long time would run to higher ground as soon as they felt a quake! Ancient Japanese were the first to record Tsunami (it is both plural an singular in Japanese) and to find the connection between earthquakes and Tsunami. Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning Harbor wave! Interestingly not all underwater earthquakes lead to Tsunami and also all Tsunami are not caused only from earthquakes. A massive ice ridge collapsing into the sea in Antarctica or the arctic can set off a tsunami. A tsunami can also be set off by a volcanic mountain collapsing into the sea.

Yes earthquakes happen under water too and the result is a tsunami.

Yes, earthquakes also occur underwater, and that shaking leads to tsunami, tidal waves... that's why when an earthquake occured in a place near sea or ocean, the government gives tsunami warning to those places or countries that can be affected...

yes my friend that is exactly tsunami.ofcourse tsunami.earthquakes that occur under water that lifts the sea water and blows the land off.it happened in our state but our p[lace it was ok.we live above sea level.my native was flooded.

no i think this thing will not happen very hard to do

Many earthquakes that occur under the ocean are close enough to land that the shaking from the earthquake will cause some damage. Large earthquakes in the oceans can also cause movement in the ocean floor that creates tsunamis (sometimes incorrectly called tidal waves). There are some anecdotes that have claimed that animals can detect something prior to earthquakes, but there are no cases where scientists have been able to confirm this

Yes we learned about these and the dangers they have when I was in school over 15 years ago. We learned of one big Tsunami back in world war II, that hit one of the Islands in Hawaii and wiped out the whole Island but for one woman. It was sad because there was an orphanage there. But yes earth quakes happen under the sea almost as much as they do on land, but the shift of the floor bed is not the major most of the time.

ya earthquakes do occur under water

Experts say that an earthquake can either be tectonic in origin or volcanic. Tectonic when there is a movement of plates and since a plate covers a wide area most of it are underwater. A sudden downward movement of a plate sucks the water downward thus creating huge waves or movement in water creating tsunamis. They also say that there are more volcanos under water than on land. And so the same principle applies.

oh well it is called tsunami :) hawaii is too much affected to tsunami's are enormous!! When an earthquake happens underwater, is shakes the surface below thus the water moves a lot more harder than producing small waves but big and huge waves. Thats so scary to see a big buge and giant waves heading towards you...ever imagine that???