OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. – While tsunamis are most often associated with oceans, they are more common in the Great Lakes than you may expect. Around 106 meteotsunamis are observed in the Great Lakes each year, although many are too small to notice.
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Depends upon the lake. To me, both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan “look” like the ocean as they are nearly impossible to see across over most of their widths. While the wave heights are smaller than the ocean, the fact that the bodies of water extend to the horizon makes them appear to be “oceans.”
Do lakes such as our Great Lakes have tides? The answer is yes, our Great Lakes do have tides that occur twice each day, but they are much smaller in scale and barely noticeable unlike the ocean.