The shaking pushes the water to and fro, and the ripple effect travels through a whole bunch of waves. thousands of miles. Or they are of so powerful that there is a violent earthquake, causing everything from the soil to fly out of the ground. cement to ripple like waves on a pond, tearing large a seemingly solid surface was only moments ago gashed. earlier. Tsunamis are waves attributable to landslides and volcanic eruptions, but they’re most famously spawned