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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), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
List of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death. City.
A School Music Revival Fund was established by him in July 2011 to provide free repair of musical instruments to schools in areas affected by the disaster. In 2014 he founded the Tohoku Youth Orchestra, which he directed and supervised, to provide children in the Tohoku region with opportunities to grow through music. Clint Eastwood [266]
6.0–6.9. 204. 5.0–5.9. 2271. ← 2010. 2012 →. This is a list of earthquakes in 2011. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable for some other reason. Smaller events in remote areas will be excluded from the list as they wouldn't have generated significant media ...
A convoy of fire engines in the tsunami zone. The aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami included both a humanitarian crisis and massive economic impacts. The tsunami created over 300,000 refugees in the Tōhoku region of Japan, and resulted in shortages of food, water, shelter, medicine and fuel for survivors. 15,900 deaths have been confirmed.
On 1 January 2024, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the western coast of Japan, triggering the first major tsunami warning since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, [170] being issued for Ishikawa Prefecture at an estimated height of 5 meters. Joetsu city in Niigata Prefecture observed a tsunami at a height of more than 6.6 meters (21.6 feet).
The Nankai Trough (南海トラフ, Nankai Torafu, Southern Sea Trough) is a submarine trough located south of the Nankaidō region of Japan 's island of Honshu, extending approximately 900 km (559 mi) offshore. The underlying fault, the Nankai megathrust, is the source of the devastating Nankai megathrust earthquakes, while the trough itself ...
Nankai megathrust earthquakes (Japanese: 南海トラフ巨大地震, Hepburn: Nankai Torafu Kyodai Jishin) are great megathrust earthquakes that occur along the Nankai megathrust – the fault under the Nankai Trough – which forms the plate interface between the subducting Philippine Sea Plate and the overriding Amurian Plate (part of the Eurasian Plate), which dips beneath southwestern ...