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Earthquake and Tsunami near Sendai, Japan

This map shows the location of a large aftershock off the coast of Japan on April 7, 2011.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using earthquake and plate tectonics data from the USGS Earthquake Hazard Program, land elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) provided by the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility, and ocean bathymetry data from the British Oceanographic Data Center’s Global Bathmetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published April 7, 2011
Data acquired April 7, 2011

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