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Mar 11, 2011 · A massive tsunami, generated by a powerful undersea earthquake, breaching the seawall at Miyako, Japan, March 11, 2011. The magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 pm. (The early estimate of magnitude 8.9 was later revised upward.) The epicentre was located some 80 miles (130 km) east of the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, and the focus ...
Mar 11, 2021 · The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami event, often referred to as the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, resulted in over 18,000 dead, including several thousand victims who were never recovered. The deadly earthquake was the largest magnitude ever recorded in Japan and the third-largest in the world since 1900. How It Happened
Earthquake A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
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- 2011-03-11 05:46:24
- 11 March 2011
- 14:46:24 JST
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Mar 11, 2024 · 2:46 p.m. March 11, 2011. A massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of the northeastern Tohoku region, triggering a devastating tsunami more than 10 meters high. A subsequent power ...
On March 11, 2011, Japan experienced the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. The earthquake struck below the North Pacific, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sendai, the largest city in the Tohoku region, a northern part of the island of Honshu. The Tohoku earthquake caused a tsunami.
Mar 11, 2011 · Update at 11:33 a.m. ET: Kyodo reports hundreds dead, dozens of fires and massive tsunami damage from the strongest earthquake to strike Japan in recorded history. The second most powerful tremor ...
Dec 5, 2013 · The epicenter of 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake was off the east coast of northern Japan. Image via USGS. The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, killing more than ...
