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Magnitude: 9.0 Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:24 UTC
Magnitude: 9.0 Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:24 UTC
Chile's Pacific coast, one of the furthest from Japan at about 17,000 km (11,000 mi) distant, was
struck by waves 2 m (6.6 ft) high, compared with an estimated wave height of 38.9 meters (128
ft) at Omoe peninsula, Miyako city, Japan.
8.9 or 9.0 magnitude
struck off Japan's north-east coast, about 250 miles (400km) from Tokyo at a depth of 20 miles.
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake happened at 2:46pm (local time) on Friday March 11, 2011.
Magnitude
Date-Time
9.0
Location
Depth
Region
38.297N, 142.372E
30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program
NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
129 km (80 miles) E of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
177 km (109 miles) E of Yamagata, Honshu, Japan
Distances
177 km (109 miles) ENE of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
373 km (231 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 13.5 km (8.4 miles); depth fixed by location program
NST=350, Nph=351, Dmin=416.3 km, Rmss=0.1 sec, Gp= 29,
Parameters
M-type=centroid moment magnitude (Mw), Version=A
Source
Event ID
usc0001xgp
Valdivia
May 22, 1960 15:11:14
tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New
Zealand, southeast Australia, and the Aleutian Islands.
25 metres (82 ft)
Date
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