=========================== 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 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.