A tsunami cannot be precisely predicted even if the right magnitude of an earthquake occurs in the right location. Systems that uses bottom pressure sensors attached to buoys can successfully predict a tsunami. No one yet knows why a tsunami may or may not occur after an earthquake.
It is not necessary that a Tsunami follows an earthquake.
It only happens when focus of earthquake is in the sea bed. Since earthquakes are caused by seismic waves produced due to collisions of the tectonic plates, these waves high disturbance in the sea water and hence the water takes the form of Tsunamis.
IF a tsunami were created by the earthquake (not all quakes can or will create a tsunami), it would depend on how far away the quake is from the point where the tsunami actually strikes. It might be minutes or it might be hours before a tsunami strikes land, or both. For instance, if there were a tsunami generated by a quake in the Pacific Ocean, it might take only minutes to strike Hawaii, but hours to strike mainland North and/or South America, and it might not strike mainland Asia at all.
It had a very very high magnitude and lasted long with many many aftershocks. Also many natural disasters were in play with it, like a Tsunami..Also I am not sure because I only heard it on the Colbert Report and might have not been true but also a volcano explosion happen.A relative who was over near the Earthquake but not in Japan said that the North ridge earthquake of 94 was nothing compared to the length and magnitude of this earthquake.
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well an earthquake with a magnitude of 1 can cause a tsunami of about 6ft lol heres a chartTsunami magnitude mTsunami heightHDamage-150 cmNone01 mVery small damage12Coastal and ship damage24 ~ 6Damage and lives lost in certain landward areas310 ~ 20Considerable damage along more than 400 km of coastline430Considerable damage along more than 500 km of coastlinenote that magnitude is above the height of the tsunami
The tsunami that just hit japan has been considered the strongest in RECORDED history. While it was not the most devastating, the epicenter (somewhere in the pacific) was powerful enough to affect the earth's orbit around the sun ever so slightly... that says large to me.Answer#2The highest tsunami apparently is the 1958 Lituya Bay(Alaska) mega-tsunami with a record height of 524 m (1742 ft).In comparison the tsunami caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan reportedly struck a coastal city in Japan at just over 23 meters (77 feet) high and in many places up to 10 meters (33 feet).
Yes. Many Japanese died as a result of an earthquake and tsunami, as did those in Christchurch New Zealand as the result of an earthquake.
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The Japan earthquake in 2011 lasted for about 6 minutes.
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Many towns were destroyed. Many people have died and are unaccounted for.
The island of Japan moved approximately 8 feet eastward due to the 2011 tsunami that was caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
There was about 2000 people killed because of the Tsunami and earthquake
No, Japan has a long history of earthquakes and tsunamis due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The most recent major earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan was in 2011, causing significant damage and loss of life.
there have been 12,000 deaths so far
Around 500. Its hard to say.
Japan was effected strongly by the earthquake that hit Japan on the 11th of March 2011. Many lives, jobs, buildings and homes were lost. A tsunami also occurred because of the earthquake. Nuclear power plants suffered from leakage, and the radiation still needs to be completely cleaned up.
The earthquake in Japan was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. (After the quake hit, seismologists ranked it from an 8.9 to a 9.0.) The tsunami's height was recorded to be about 33 feet. Many counts say that the number is much higher, even as high as a 3-4 story building.