KUCHINOTSU

Station Information

Station ID: 1386
Latitude: 32.605278
Longitude: 130.195278
Coastline code: 645
Station code: 62
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1975 – 2023
Completeness (%): 97
Date of last update: 05 Mar 2024

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

Kuchinotsu 645/062 RLR(1976) is 19.2m below Attached BM 4306 Attached BM replaced the previous benchmark during 1980

Documentation added 2012-02-22

A massive earthquake mgnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 woth the epicentre situated approx. 70km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku. The earthquake was the largest ever to strike Japan and triggered a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m travelling inland up to 10km.

Data Authority

Japan Meteorological Agency
3-6-9 Toranomon, Minato City
Tokyo