because it has techtonic plates and the plates started to move but they rubbed against each other and caused the land to move as well and the earthquake was so powerful that it caused an underwater earthquake called a tsunami.
The epicenter of the earthquake was offshore, close to Sendai, Japan.
Where is Japen?
This earthquake happen in januray 22,2009
a earthquake happens whaen a plate moves that what happen when we had the christchurch earthquake happened.
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An earthquake can happen anywhere. But some places are more active than others.
Earthquake mostly happen around the ring of fire, around the Pacific ocean.
the sumatra earthquake happened in sumatra
White Earthquake happened in 1995.