Just like the case of other earthquakes, this one happened because of the collision of the tectonic plates under earth's crust which produced high seismic waves .
A huge earthquake off the coast of Japan and it's aftershocks caused the tsunami.
The Earthquake occurred before the tsunami as it is what caused the tsunami.
A tsunami hit japan after the earthquake.
The Tsunami was caused by the large earthquake that preceded it.
The earthquake in Japan in 2011 was caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate along the Japan Trench. This tectonic movement resulted in a massive release of energy that led to the earthquake.
The earthquake and tsunami were caused by a shift in the earths crust.
There was a big earthquake in japan on Friday the 11th of march. it was caused by a destructive plate boundary. the pacific plate moved down under the Eurasian plate. That caused a lot of pressure in the epicenter what was about 200km far from Tokyo. The result was an earthquake. the earthquake caused a tsunami. It was up to 10 m high waves destroyed thousands of houses in the coast of japan.
Because the the pacific plate and Eurasian plates where stuck near japan and built up pressure along that fault line and eventually the pressure released and caused the earthquake to happen.
In Japan
No. The earthquake that caused the Tsunami in Indonesia in 2004 was a bigger earthquake than the one that hit Japan.
The Tsunami in Japan in 2011 was caused by an earthquake gesitering a magnitude 9.0.
The Kobe earthquake occurred in Kobe, Japan in 1995. It was a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that caused extensive damage and loss of life in the region.