The earthquake that occured in Japan on March 11, 2011 was an 8.9 scale earthquake, which means that it was very powerful. This earthquake caused numerous tsunamis, irreparable damage, and massive death. The death toll continues to rise with hundreds of thousands of people still missing.
Yes, the devastating tsunami that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011, was triggered by a powerful undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0. The earthquake, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, generated massive ocean waves that resulted in the tsunami.
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake at sea rocked Japan, causing a massive tsunami with waves up to 30 feet high on March 11, 2011. The quake happened when one of the earth's plates slid under another, displacing a large amount of water, which caused the tsunami.
The last earthquake that occurred in Japan was on the 1st of January 2012 with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter Scale. The earthquake you probably heard about happened on the 11th of March 2011 which had a tsunami following it. The magnitude for that was 9.0. This earthquake had four aftershocks which happened on the 11th of March 2011, 7th of April 2011, 11th of April 2011 and the 10th of June 2011. the magnitudes for these were 7.1, 7.1, 7.1 and 7.0.
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred near the east coast of Japan, which triggered a massive tsunami. UPDATE: Official magnitude was updated to 9.1 on Nov 7, 2016.
2:46 PM (JST), MARCH 11 2011 , FRiday
The Christchurch in New Zealand, had an earthquake of a 4.8 magnitude which happened on March 6, 2011 3:43am. This was an aftershock of the last months earthquake, February 22, 2011 which was 6.3.
The earthquake and tsunami happened on March 11 2011
A 9.0 earthquake that killed thousands of people.
The 2011 earthquake in Japan happened on March 11 It was off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku was a magnitude 9.0–9.1.
It happened on March 11th, 2011 at 2:46 local time.
Japan has earthquakes daily. The whole country is in a very active seismic area, and have the densest seismic network in the world which records earthquake activity. The massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake that happened off the coast of Japan on Friday, March 11th 2011 was at 2:46pm local time or 05:46 GMT.
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