Tsunami — Honshu Island

When

11 Mar 2011

Kind

Tsunami

Coordinates

38.30° N, 142.37° E

Deaths

18423

Injuries

6167

Damage musd

220136.6

Houses destroyed

123661

Max water height m

39.26

Source quake magnitude

9.1

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

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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