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.
Uragami 642/138 RLR(1968) is 10.7m below Attached BM
Documentation added 1994-07-15
See comments on sea level variability given for Maisaka (642/126).
Documentation added 2012-02-21
A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST ( 05.46 UTC) on Friday 11th March 2011 with the epicentre approx. 70 km 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 10 km inland.
This station was previously flagged - see comments above. However the overall profile looks reasonable so the station flag has now been removed.
Where there is more than 1 benchmark with the same name a suffix has been added
Data Authority
Marine Department Japan Meteorological Agency Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo