Earth ChangesDeadly tsunami could strike US West Coast as underwater fault builds toward a massive earthquake, scientists warn Posted on November 11, 2026 by Administrator A massive underwater fault that caused a historic disaster across the entire Pacific Rim is once again building towards destruction. Scientists at Tohoku University found that the Japan Trench is stuck just like it was before unleashing the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, which sent a tsunami all the way to Hawaii and the US West Coast. That earthquake ruptured a large section of the Japan Trench and devastated Japan’s northeast coast with a tsunami that led to approximately 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the country.