Earthquake — Japan: Honshu

When

11 Mar 2011

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

9.1

Where

Japan

Coordinates

38.30° N, 142.37° E

Deaths

18423

Injuries

6167

Damage musd

220136.6

Houses destroyed

123661

Depth km

29

Megathrust earthquake off Japan's east coast

On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 local time (UTC+9), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" , among other names. It is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 19,759 people and leaving another 2,553 missing”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Japonya'nın doğusunu 9,0 büyüklüğünde bir deprem ve ardından gelen tsunami vurdu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Am 11. März kommt es in Japan zu einem schweren Erdbeben der Magnitude 9,0, das einen Tsunami und die Nuklearkatastrophe von Fukushima zur Folge hat”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение магнитудой от 9,0 до 9,1 произошло у северо-восточного побережья Японии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un gran terremoto de 9,1 sacude todo Japón y extiende la alerta de tsunami por todo el Pacífico”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ضرب زلزال عنيف بلغ 9.2 على مقياس ريختر، قبالة سواحل شرق اليابان مخلفًا أكثر من 1000 قتيل”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2011年日本东北地方太平洋近海地震以及相关的福岛第一核电站事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日本の東北地方太平洋岸沖を震源とする、マグニチュード9.0の地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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