OITA II

Station Information

Station ID: 1293
Latitude: 33.266111
Longitude: 131.686667
Coastline code: 645
Station code: 9
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1971 – 2022
Completeness (%): 98
Date of last update: 03 Feb 2023

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Oita II 645/009 RLR(1975) is 9.7m below BM Oita

Documentation added 2012-02-22

A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 with the epicentre situated approx. 70km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku. It was the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan triggering a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m high and travelling up to 10km
inland.

Data Authority

Japan Oceanographic Data Centre
Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency
MLIT Aomi Building
2-5-18, Aomi, Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0064