Has a tornado and an earthquake ever hit the same area at the same time?

Question

I'm just curious. I'm sure it's possible....but has it ever happened? I'm not finding anything on an internet search other than a little YouTube comedy thing.

Answer 1

yeh it's called babysitting.......4 me anywayz

Answer 2

Hurricanes have tornadoes but tornadoes dont have hurricanes...

Answer 3

Earthquakes and tornadoes aren't related at all...earthquakes aren't really weather phenomena anyway, they occur due to movements underground.  Tornadoes occur due to conditions in the atmosphere.  So physically, it could happen since they have no influence on each other, they're totally separate. However, since each individual event is rare (you don't just see earthquakes or tornadoes every day), and are extremely short-lived (on the order of minutes) it would make the chances even less that they would occur on the same day at the same time at the same place.  Whether that has actually happened or not, I'm not sure.

But I do have to agree with the Chuck Norris comment :)

Answer 4

sounds like an event that would happen 1 in millions of tornadoes.

it would have to be large ,just to feel it over the tornado

Answer 5

no it's scientificly impossible

Answer 6

GirlGirl is correct.  The odds would be huge, but it is not

impossible since they have no bearing on each other.

One would think that at sometime (in the midwest, where

the quakes have been popping up lately) there would have

been a slight quake during a tornado....but it would likely

not be felt by anything other than instruments.  I lived in NorCal for a while, and there was a tornado that snapped off trees and took the roof off of a church, and this was just off the San Andreas fault, so, yes, it's possible, just not probable.

Answer 7

yes it was called Chuck Norris