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This is an alphabetically sorted list of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Cities and towns listed here reported at least US$ 100,000 in damage or at least one death.
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States. The magnitude 9.1 (M w) undersea megathrust earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean at a relatively shallow depth of 32 km (20 mi), [9] [56] with its epicenter approximately 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku, Japan, lasting approximately six minutes.
The 2011 Colorado earthquake caused damage in Segundo, Cokedale, Valdez and Trinidad. Rockslides occurred on State Highway 12. - - 23 [77] United States, Virginia, 11 km southwest of Mineral: 5.8 6.0 VIII The 2011 Virginia earthquake was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history, with tremors also being felt in Canada. [78]
The last tsunami warning in the San Francisco Bay Area followed a 9.1 earthquake in Tohoku, Japan that sparked a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 ...
Works about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (5 C, 4 P) Pages in category "2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
March 10, 2011 04:58 Myanmar–China border region see 2011 Yunnan earthquake: 24.727 97.597 26 5.5 M w (USGS) Centred 95 km SE of Myitkyina, Myanmar, at a depth of 10 km. Most damage took place in China. [8] March 11, 2011 05:46 Near the east coast of Honshu, Japan see 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami: 38.297 142.372 18,184 dead 2,668 ...
The earliest known earthquake in the U.S. state of California was documented in 1769 by the Spanish explorers and Catholic missionaries of the Portolá expedition as they traveled northward from San Diego along the Santa Ana River near the present site of Los Angeles. Ship captains and other explorers also documented earthquakes.
The fault zone responsible for Thursday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of California is not known to produce large ... such as the 9.0 earthquake in Japan in 2011 and the 2022 Tonga ...