MAIZURU II

Station Information

Station ID: 1387
Latitude: 35.476667
Longitude: 135.386944
Coastline code: 647
Station code: 62
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1975 – 2023
Completeness (%): 98
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

Maizuru II 647/062 RLR(1976) is 9.7m below Attached BM
From 1994 onwards Attached BM (i) suiperceded the previous benchmark

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 to ever strike Japan and caused an tsunami with waves up to 40.5m high travelling inland up to 10km.

Data Authority

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