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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 ...
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.
- 6 minutes
- 2011-03-11 05:46:24
- 11 March 2011
- 14:46:24 JST
Feb 13, 2021 · Tokyo, Japan CNN —. A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on Saturday was an aftershock of the devastating 9.0 magnitude quake that struck the same area almost 10 years ago, according to the ...
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The 11 March 2011, magnitude 9.0 Honshu, Japan earthquake (38.322 N, 142.369 E, depth 32 km) generated a tsunami observed over the Pacific region and caused tremendous local devastation. This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world and the largest in Japan since instrumental recordings began in 1900. This is the deadliest tsunami since ...
Feb 25, 2022 · More than 5,000 aftershocks hit Japan in the year after the earthquake, the largest a magnitude 7.9. About 250 miles (400 km) of Japan's northern Honshu coastline dropped by 2 feet (0.6 meters ...
Location of the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9.0 earthquake epicenter (star on globe, red dot on map). The magnitude 9.0 earthquake (later determined to be 9.1) that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, was unprecedented in the modern history of Japan, according to scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
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.
