WARNING: QCFLAG EXISTS. PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION.
Station Information
Station ID:
1346
Latitude:
39.273333
Longitude:
141.889167
Coastline code:
642
Station code:
17
Country:
JAPAN
Time span of data:
1973 – 2019
Completeness (%):
94
Date of last update:
13 Aug 2020
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.
Kamaisi II 642/017 RLR(1975) is 8.6m below BM Kamaisi
Documentation added 2012-02-22
A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (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 strike Japan and triggered a tsunami with waves of up to 40.5m travelling inland up to 10km. From the data plot it can be seen that obviously the tide gauge was badly damaged. Data following the earthquake flagged.
Data Authority
Japan Oceanographic Data Centre Hydrographic Department, Maritime Safety Agency MLIT Aomi Building 2-5-18, Aomi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064