Because of a underwater earthquake
The Earthquake of Kobe occurred in Japan in 1995.
Its called the Kobe earthquake
Great Hanshin earthquake .
Japan
a tsunami is a underwater earthquake,du The earthquake moved the ocean plates causing an uprise in the water and larger waves
The tsunami in Japan occurred because when the tectonic plates under ground move they cause an earthquake. Sometimes an earthquake can cause a tsunami from shaking underwater.
The Kobe earthquake occurred in Japan in the year 1995.
It was the Kobe earthquake of 1995, also called Great Hanshin earthquake which was a large-scale earthquake in the Ōsaka-Kōbe (Hanshin) metropolitan area of western Japan that was among the strongest, deadliest, and costliest to ever strike that country.
Kobe
earthquake
Its called a Tsunami, Japan just had one and was devastated!