Cambridge Earthquake Impact Database
Earthquake
Japan 2011
Tohoku

eq id
usc0001xgp
region
Japan
event date (dd/mm/yyyy)
03/11/2011
event time (local)
14:46
time zone (+- hours)
9
depth (km)
29
magnitude
9.1
epicentre (lat long)
38.1 142.85
lat/long accuracy
Good
secondary effects
Tsunami
pde shaking deaths
19335
precision notes
Intensity: 8.6 max value on land. Ground shaking was felt as far as western Japan and lasted for almost four minutes (220 seconds), generating tsunami that seriously affected approximately 650 km of the Sanriku, Miyagi, Joban and Kanto coastline along the Pacific Ocean shores of Northern Honshu Island.
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