You can help by going to You can donate to Red Cross at their website [link] or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. You can also help all the poor animals in Japan by donating to [link] You can even help by viewing this Nigahiga's video [link] who will donate $600 for every 1,000,000 pageviews (he's not doing this for fame, he's doing this for awareness and for people who can't donate themselves).
what precautionary measures are taken to minimize the damage caused by the tsunami
Build your town well away from the coast.
It causes damage to buildings and infrastructure,animals,plants and humans.
This would be a few seconds after a slip in between the earths plates at its epicentre excluding any damages caused after by a tsunami
It Caused Thousands of lives to lost, Many Millions of $'s worth of damages to houses and destroyed Japans Economy.
No, tsunami are caused by sub-oceanic earthquakes. High storm surges caused by cyclones (typhoons, hurricanes) can seem tsunami-like, but are not tsunami.
A tsunami is a huge tidal wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
no, a tsunami is caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water.
Yes
tsunami
Yes, you can sue for damages caused by negligence.
An earthquake caused the Sumatra Tsunami.