Thrust faulting along or near the subduction zone plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. It occured due to compressional stress and convergent plate boundaries which are destructive.
It was a destructive plate boundary
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earthquake zone or in the boundry of tectonic plates
The same reason any earthquake happens, tectonic plates shifted against each other.
Tectonic plates colide causing the earth to shake.
PLATES
they are plates under the crust that move when are shifted
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 cause of the tsunami was an earthquake that scored 8.9 on the rictor scale was that of the tectonic plates shifted under Japan, and caused the tragedy.
A tectonic earthquake is a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust caused by the movement of tectonic plates. These earthquakes occur at plate boundaries where plates are colliding, sliding past one another, or moving apart. The stress built up from the movement of plates is released in the form of seismic waves, causing the ground to shake.
Tectonic plates
An earthquake is when the tectonic plates under the earth move in different directions causing the earth to shake. Everybody*"GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED"
When I first saw you, I was certain that the tectonic plates had just shifted. The Earth's lithosphere is made up of seven or eight major, and many minor tectonic plates.
An earthquake is a result of tectonic plates colliding.