TOBA II

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Station Information

Station ID: 1439
Latitude: 34.485278
Longitude: 136.824722
Coastline code: 642
Station code: 135
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1977 – 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

Documentation added 2002-03-26

Toba II replaced Toba (642/134) 1977.

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 largest earthquake to ever strike Japan and triggered a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m high travelling up to 10km inland.

Data Authority

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