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Flashback in maritime history: Japanese Earthquake + Tsunami 11 Mar 2011

people_culture UTC: 2026-03-13 20:30:16

(www.MaritimeCyprus.com) On 11 March 2011, at 1446 JST, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred beneath the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean 70 kilometers east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tohoku Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu. It was the most powerful earthquake to h...

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