Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

20 May 2019

SUMOTO

Station Information

Station ID: 1098
Latitude: 34.340556
Longitude: 134.906667
Coastline code: 643
Station code: 26
Country: JAPAN
Time span of data: 1965 – 2018
Completeness (%): 99
Date of last update: 12 Feb 2019

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.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at SUMOTO.

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at SUMOTO.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level data.

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution.
NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

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