Great earthquakes at shallow depth beneath the ocean pose a major tsunami threat, as experienced in Japan soon after the quake.
The shifting of tectonic plates.
The Tsunami in Japan in 2011 was caused by an earthquake gesitering a magnitude 9.0.
An earthquake off the coast caused it.
An earthquake off the coast caused it.
No. The March 2011 earthquake in japan was along a convergent boundary, and triggered by subduction.
The earthquake was first and caused the tsunami, like when you throw a stone into a pond first and then the ripples go out.
An earthquake off the coast caused it.
An earthquake off the coast caused it.
The Tsunami in Japan in 2011 was caused by an earthquake gesitering a magnitude 9.0.
No. The earthquake that caused the Tsunami in Indonesia in 2004 was a bigger earthquake than the one that hit Japan.
Yeah.
It is called tectonic stress.
Well.............THey just and an EARTHQUAKE and a TSUNAMI duuu!
No. The March 2011 earthquake in japan was along a convergent boundary, and triggered by subduction.
The earthquake and tsunami were caused by a shift in the earths crust.
Great East Japan Earthquake / 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
The earthquake was first and caused the tsunami, like when you throw a stone into a pond first and then the ripples go out.
there was tsunami because the earthquake had a high magnitude,so made big that caused the tsunami