TAGO

Station Information

Station ID: 1437
Latitude: 34.806944
Longitude: 138.764167
Coastline code: 642
Station code: 119
Country: JAPAN
Time span of RLR data: 1981 – 2023
RLR completeness (%): 97
Time span of metric data: 1977 – 2023
Metric completeness (%): 96
Link to ellipsoid: Available
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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: P114

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Tago 642/119 RLR(1983) is 11.6m below BM Attach-31

Documentation added 2009-05-05

Data 1999 onwards appears to be slightly higher than previously.

Documentation added 2012-02-22

A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JTS (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 ever to hit Japan triggering a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m and travelling up to 10km inland.

Documentation added 2014-03-13

The GPS benchmark information has been downloaded from the SONEL website. GPS benchmark P114 is 14.073m above RLR.

Data Authority

Geographical Survey Institute
Kitasato -1
Tsukuba-shi
Ibaraki-ken 305