The Consequences of an Earthquake

An Earthquake is the result of the movement of the tectonics plates one against the other.

It releases a lot of power that results in earthquakes and/or tsunamis, if it is in the ocean.

In March 11, 2011, Japan was the victim of the seventh strongest earthquake in history. That caused a tsunami with waves of 12 meters that destroyed part of the east coast of Japan.

The earthquake was measured at 8.9 degrees in Richter scale. It was so strong that it moved the axis of rotation of the Earth in 9 or 10 centimetres, according to the National Institute of Geophisics and Volcanology of Italy. It was the second most changed the rotation of the Earth. It loses only for the most destructive and strongest eathquake on the world that occurred in Chile in 1960. That earthquake was measured in 9.5 degrees in the Richter scale.