The 2011 Tohoku earthquake occurred at 2:46 JST ( Japanese Standard Time ). The epicenter of the earthquake was around 45 miles east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku.
An earthquake that hit japan started the tsunami
The tsunami hit Sendai approximately 30 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.
The Japanese crisis that took place in 2011 was an earthquake and tsunami. It was the most powerful documented earthquake to hit Japan and one of the five most disastrous earthquakes in the world.
'Earthquake' is地震 (jishin) in Japanese.
2:46 pm on Friday, March 11th, 2011 (JST)
The earthquake that hit Japan in 2011 is commonly known as the Great East Japan Earthquake, or the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It occurred on March 11, 2011, and had a magnitude of 9.0, triggering a devastating tsunami.
The 2011 Japanese tsunami was caused by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan. The earthquake generated a series of powerful tsunami waves that devastated coastal areas and caused widespread destruction.
The 2011 Japan Tsunami did not directly hit Indonesia. The tsunami was generated by a powerful earthquake off the coast of Japan and primarily affected the Japanese coastline. Indonesia is located quite a distance away from the epicenter of the earthquake.
So far the amount of people that have died in the Japanese earthquake is 10,000 people.
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