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On this day, March 11, 2011, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
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Coordinates: 38.322°N 142.369°E
UTC time: 2011-03-11 05:46:24
Epicenter: 38.322°N 142.369°E
Fault: Convergent boundary between Pacific Plate and Okhotsk microplate
Type: Megathrust
Total damage: $360 billion USD
Casualties: 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, 2,553 people missing
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai), among other names. The disaster is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11 (read san ten ichi-ichi in Japanese).
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Coordinates: 38.322°N 142.369°E
UTC time: 2011-03-11 05:46:24
Epicenter: 38.322°N 142.369°E
Fault: Convergent boundary between Pacific Plate and Okhotsk microplate
Type: Megathrust
Total damage: $360 billion USD
Casualties: 19,759 deaths, 6,242 injured, 2,553 people missing
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC), a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approximately six minutes, causing a tsunami. It is sometimes known in Japan as the "Great East Japan Earthquake" (東日本大震災, Higashi nihon daishinsai), among other names. The disaster is often referred to by its numerical date, 3.11 (read san ten ichi-ichi in Japanese).
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From your link:
"The earthquake moved Honshu 2.4 m (8 ft) east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in)..." 