=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 11-Jun-1991
Abashiri I          641/003 RLR(1966) is 9.5m below Attached BM
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 29-Aug-1995
A destructive earthquake and tsunami occurred in the Kuril Islands on 4 October 1994 - see Earth System Monitor, 5(4), June 1995.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 19-Feb-1997
February 1997: Abashiri I, II and III recoded as one station on advice from authority
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 26-Mar-2002
Abashiri gauge replaced June 1980.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 26-Mar-2002
Abashiri new gauge installed 16th July 1986.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 22-Feb-2012
A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 with the epicentre approx. 70km east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku. It was the most powerful known earthquake to hit Japan triggering a tsunami with waves up to 40.5m and travelling up to 10km inland.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 13-Mar-2014
The GPS benchmark information has been downloaded from the SONEL website. GPS benchmark P202 is 13.255m above RLR.

