A tsumami wave

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JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI

March 11, 2011

Help students learn about earthquakes and the tsunamis that can sometimes result from them. The massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, 2011, was the most powerful earthquake to strike the country in at least one hundred years and the fifth-largest ever recorded in the world.

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