2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
megathrust earthquake off the east coast of Japan
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Summary
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami is a megathrust earthquake[1].
Key Facts
- Country: Japan[2]
- Instance of: tsunami[3], off Sanriku earthquake[4], multi-segment earthquake[5], 超巨大地震[6]
- Follows: March 2011 Sanriku earthquake[7]
- Location: North Pacific Ocean[8]
- Point in time: March 11, 2011[9]
- Has cause: mechanism of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami[10]
- Number of deaths: 19,759[11]
- Number of injured: 6242[12]
- Topic has template: Template:2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami casualties dead[13]
- Number of missing: 2553[14]
- Official name: 平成23年（2011年）東北地方太平洋沖地震[15], The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake[16]
- Has effect: aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami[17], Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster[18]
- Duration: 160 seconds[19]
- Aftershocks: 13,386[20]
- Earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale: 9.1[21]
- Earthquake magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale: 9.0[22]
- Cost of damage: 16,900,000,000,000 yen[23], 21,500,000,000,000 yen[24]
- Modified Mercalli intensity scale: Mercalli scale IX[25]
- Damaged: building[26]
- Destroyed: building[27]
- Vertical depth: 32 km[28], 24 km[29]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[30]