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11 March 2011
- On 11 March 2011 at 2:46 p.m., Japan was struck by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake which generated a gigantic tsunami that hit a 700 km stretch of its Pacific coast-lines. It is the largest magnitude ever recorded in Japan and the 3rd in the world, next to the Chile Earthquake in 1960 and the Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.
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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. (more) The magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 pm. (The early estimate of magnitude 8.9 was later revised upward.)
Feb 25, 2022 · The temblor also shortened the length of a day by about a microsecond. More than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after the earthquake, the largest a magnitude 7.9. About 250 miles (400 km...
It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai), among other names. The disaster is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11 (read san ten ichi-ichi in Japanese).
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Mar 11, 2021 · TOKYO (AP) — Japan fell quiet at 2:46 p.m. Thursday to mark the minute that an earthquake began 10 years ago, setting off a tsunami and nuclear crisis that devastated the country’s northeast coast in a disaster that one survivor said he fears people are beginning to forget.
Mar 11, 2021 · On March 11, 2011, a magnitude (Mw) 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench. A tsunami that was generated by the earthquake arrived at the coast within 30 minutes, overtopping seawalls and disabling three nuclear reactors within days.
Mar 11, 2011 · Overview of the earthquake. On 11 March 2011 at 2:46 p.m., Japan was struck by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake which generated a gigantic tsunami that hit a 700 km stretch of its Pacific coast-lines.
