WARNING: METRIC STATION THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
Station Information
Station ID:
1866
Latitude:
39.185556
Longitude:
139.547778
Coastline code:
647
Station code:
94
Country:
JAPAN
Time span of data:
1995 – 2021
Completeness (%):
95
Date of last update:
16 Mar 2022
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.
A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 with the epicentre situated approx. 70 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku. It was the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan and triggered a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m travelling in last for as far as 10km.
Data Authority
Geographical Survey Institute Kitasato -1 Tsukuba-shi Ibaraki-ken 305