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Background on japanese tsunami

The , also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately .

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