Data
- Obtaining
- Supplying
- High-Frequency
- Bottom Pressure Records
- Other Long Records
- GLOSS/ODINAFRICA Calibration Data
Data Notes
- Individual Station Data and Plot Notes
- Referencing the Data Set
- PSMSL Help File
- 2010 Changes to the PSMSL Data Files
Extracted from Database
30 Mar 2020
Station Information
| Station ID: | 816 |
| Latitude: | 34.221667 |
| Longitude: | 135.145556 |
| Coastline code: | 643 |
| Station code: | 15 |
| Country: | JAPAN |
| Time span of data: | 1957 – 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
Station Documentation
Link to RLR information.Documentation added 1991-06-11
Wakayama 643/015 RLR(1976) is 8.8m below Attached BMDocumentation added 1993-07-12
Wakayama 643/015 RLR(1976) is 8.8m below Attached BMDocumentation added 2002-03-26
Wakayama replaced by new gauge on same site July 1980.Documentation added 2003-11-20
Datum 1996 is 1.037m below Tokyo Peil.Datum 1998 is 1.042m below Tokyo Peil.
Documentation added 2011-02-24
Sea level profile compares well with that for Kainan.Documentation added 2012-02-21
A massive earthquake magnitude 9.0 occurred at 14.46 JST (05.46 UTC) on Friday11th March 2011 with 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 10km inland.
Data Authority
Marine DepartmentJapan Meteorological Agency
Ote-machi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
