An earthquake is when the tectonic plates slide together and bump in this case the earthquake was created under water then when the tectonic plates shift it creates waves in the ocean that cause damage to the local cities and that is called a tsunami which has an estimated devastating  7 waves.

The earthquake happened on March 11, 2011. It happened at 2:46 p.m. Japan had a 9.1 magnitude earthquake which happened because the tectonic plates had shifted then it created the tsunami and flooded Japan.

Lots of people were affected by the tsunami because 450,000 people ended up homeless and 15,500 people died.   It also impacted the people because during the tsunami the waves hit the citizens homes and they were demolished by the fast and powerful waves. their homelands they knew were just basic mud and a big wreak and disaster.  As a result of the damage that the tsunami did taxes were increasing so they could repair the roads, buildings and the power plants.

The tsunami also damaged the three main nuclear power plants in Japan. As a result Japan's electricity sources were destroyed. The nuclear power plants released toxic and radioactive materials in to the environment and caused people to evacuate their homes.  There task was to prevent radioactive materials, particularly in contaminated water leaked from the three power plants. This task became big in August 2013.

There have been no deaths or cases of radiation sickness from the nuclear accident, but over 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes as a result of the accident.

The japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011 was also known as the  great tohoku earthquake which was a natural disaster that shook the entire northeastern japan in march 11 2011  The tsunami damaged the infrastructure of Japan and now it is difficult to rebuild it was measured in a big magnitude 9.1 shook the religion in the early afternoon which then would unleash a absolute devastating tsunami on march 11, 2011 Japan experienced one of the strongest tsunamis ever  recorded in history. The earthquake struck below the north pacific, 130 km east of senda.