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.
Sumoto 643/026 RLR(1976) is 14.6m below Attached BM (i) Where two benchmarks have the same name the later one is suffixed.
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 Peninsular . It was the most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan triggering a tsunami with waves up to 40.5m and travelling up to 10 km inland.
Data Authority
Marine Department Japan Meteorological Agency Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo