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Japan Earthquake

The Japan earthquake and tsunami, also known as the Great Sendai Earthquake or Great Tōhoku Earthquake, a major natural disaster in northeastern Japan. The event began with a powerful earthquake off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan's main island, causing widespread land damage and triggering a series of massive tsunami waves that ravaged many of the country's coastal areas, most notably in the Tōhoku (northeastern Honshu) region. The tsunami has also caused a major nuclear accident at a coastal power plant. The earthquake was triggered by the fracturing of a stretch of the subduction zone aligned with the Japan Trench separating the Eurasian Plate from the Pacific Plate subducting it. The temblor of March 11 had been felt as far as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia; Kao-hsiung, Taiwan; and Beijing, China. Many foreshocks followed it, including a magnitude-7.2 occurrence centered about 25 miles  away from the main quake's epicenter.    

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