2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

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Coordinates: 38.322°N 142.369°E







UTC time: 2011-03-11 05:46:24
Epicenter: 38.322°N 142.369°E
Fault: Convergent boundary between Pacific Plate and Okhotsk microplate
Type: Megathrust
Total damage: $360 billion USD
Casualties: 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, 2,553 people missing

On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), 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. It lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai), among other names. The disaster is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11 (read san ten ichi-ichi in Japanese).

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