moving tectonic plates on earths surface
The Movement of Techtonic Plates causes the earthquakes in Japan.
Maybe, if a series of 8.0 earthquakes occurr on every part of the globe.
There are faultlines along the bottom of the Levant coastline, the Red Sea, and the Olduvai Gorge. Earthquakes happen in those areas. There are no significant volcanoes in the Middle East or Africa.
Just because he was in a bad mood, he would cause springs, earthquakes, ship wrecks and drownings. He would strike the ground with his Trident
mesopotamia had earthquakes, they had a large one in 1060, but other tha that nothing huge
The Pacific and North American plates cause most of Alaska's earthquakes.
the movement of tectonic or lithoshereic plates
Undersea earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
Volcanoes are not the primary cause of earthquakes. Most earthquakes result from the stresses created by tectonic plates moving past or against one another. At transform boundaries there is no mechanism to produce volcanoes, but the movement of the plates will still cause earthquakes. Stresses within a plate can also cause earthquakes.
cause Japan does sometimes
when tectonic plates slide past eachother
Of these things, earthquakes are the only ones that can cause tsunamis.
Earthquakes have a geological cause.
Earthquakes are one (but not the only) cause of tsunamis.
most of the time it depends what country it is
Of course! In fact, underwater earthquakes are a major cause of tsunamis.
Earthquakes IN the water? No. Earthquakes UNDER the water, yes - underwater earthquakes cause most of the Tsunamis, including the one that hit Indonesia a couple of years ago. Yes There are earthquakes under the water; many of them start there.