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Historic Earthquake
2011 Sanriku Offshore Earthquake
11 March 2011 · Off East Coast Honshu · Japan
On 11 March 2011 at 06:25 UTC, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Japan (Off East Coast Honshu), at a depth of 19 km. It occurred on the Pacific Plate, 98 km from its boundary with the Okhotsk Plate (subduction zone).
- Date
- 11 March 2011
- Time
- 06:25 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.6
- Depth
- 19 km
- Plate
- Pacific Plate
- Country
- Japan
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20112011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami · M 9.118,423 deaths
- 19941994 Offshore Sanriku Earthquake · M 7.83 deaths
- 19781978 Miyagi Earthquake · M 7.728 deaths
- 19381938 Fukushima Earthquakes · M 7.71 deaths
- 19381938 Fukushima Earthquakes · M 7.6
- 19331933 Sanriku Earthquake · M 8.43,022 deaths
- 1919Off East Coast Honshu · M 7.6
- 1915Near E Coast Honshu · M 7.8
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth