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What is point where movement occurred which triggered the earthquake?
The point is the epicentre of the earthquake.
Where did the Japan tsunami 2011 happen?
The March 11th tsunami hit the north eastern parts mainly near earthquake epicentre. Iwate, Fukushima, and Miyagi saw the highest waves.
Was the 2011 Japan earthquake a transform earthquake?
No. The March 2011 earthquake in japan was along a convergent boundary, and triggered by subduction.
What is the originate of earthquake?
Its epicentre
Name of the center of the earthquake?
The underground centre of an earthquake is the Hypocentre or focus.
What is the definition of an epicentre of an earthquake?
The epicentre of an earthquake is the point on the earth's surface away from which the seismic waves produced by an earthquake radiate. This is similar to the way waves or ripples in a pond move outwards in concentric circles from the point where you throw a stone into the water. As such the epicentre is the point on the earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus or hypocentre (the point within the earth where the fault rupture or movement actually occurs).
Is there a famous earthquake in japan?
Great East Japan Earthquake / 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
What mean earthquake focus?
asw2. The epicentre is the underground location of the earthquake, and the focus is the point on the surface directly above the epicentre.
What is the strongest point of the earthquake?
the epicentre
What is centre of a earthquake called?
epicentre
What is above the orgin of an earthquake?
the epicentre
What is the name of the earthquake that hit Japan in 2011?
It is called the Sendai Earthquake of 2011 because the epicenter was nearest the city of Sendai, Japan.
