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Originally Posted by Esteban
That was definitely a big one.
"On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake," among other names."
Number of deaths were 19,759, 6,242 injured, and 2,553 people missing as of 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T...ke_and_tsunami |
Most deaths were from drowning. I thought I was going to be in Japan for a long time from hearing the news of the tsunami and Fukushima power plant problems but got lucky.