There were only minutes(3-4)
There was little to no warning about the coming of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 2011.
It depends on the size of the earthquake. If it was just a very very minor shudder, then it would not make much of a tsunami, nor would it go very far. However, if there is an earthquake like the one that just hit Japan, then that could cross the pacific ocean.
The earthquake in Japan was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. (After the quake hit, seismologists ranked it from an 8.9 to a 9.0.) The tsunami's height was recorded to be about 33 feet. Many counts say that the number is much higher, even as high as a 3-4 story building.
The 2011 Tsunami in JapanMost scientists reported that the 33ft (10m) Tsunami wave, triggered by a massive earthquake on March 11 measuring magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale, made it 6 miles (10 kilometers) inland with washed up debris and water reaching distances of 10 miles or more inland. This city of Sendai was 80 miles (128 km) from epicenter of Earthquake.
An earthquake hit Tokyo and 3 or 4 nuclear reactors went off and there was a tsunami.
The most powerful earthquake recorded in Japanese history, magnitude 9.0, was the cause of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. The tremors were the result of a violent uplift of the sea floor 80 miles off the coast of Sendai, where the Pacific tectonic plate slides beneath the plate Japan sits on. Tens of miles of crust ruptured along the trench where the tectonic plates meet. The earthquake occurred at the relatively shallow depth of 30 km (18.6 miles), meaning much of its energy was released at the seafloor.
The 2011 Japan earthquake, also known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, was triggered by a sudden slip along a subduction zone where the Pacific Plate is forced beneath the North American Plate. This movement caused a massive release of energy, generating the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated much of eastern Japan.
The estimated economic losses from the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami are around $360 billion, making it one of the most costly natural disasters in history. The damage was primarily due to the widespread destruction of infrastructure, homes, and businesses in the affected regions.
During the Japanese earthquake in 2011, the Pacific Plate shifted approximately 8 meters (26 feet) horizontally and 2.5 meters (8 feet) vertically. This movement resulted in the devastating tsunami that caused widespread destruction.
No it makes the earthquake of how much feet the water if its like 6 to 7 or 8 it is a cause of tsunami
The death toll from the Sensai earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 is not yet known, and won't be known for some time, perhaps even weeks. At this point, it is reported by CNN that the death toll is 398, with 800 missing.
A tsunami is a large wave caused by an earthquake, and as such it is not really a kind of weather, but it does have the capacity to get things wet, much like rain, only more so. Tsunamis are created when there is a huge explosion like an earthquake. Imagine that a rock is it the ripple rise and that represents the tsunami.