On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 p.m., a magnitude-9.1Mw earthquake shook the Tohoku region in Japan, causing a tsunami and killing 29.000 people.
Century-Old 'Tsunami Stones' Saved Lives In the Tōhoku Earthquake
A tsunami stone. Photo by T. Kishimoto, CC BY-SA 4.0T.KISHIMOTO
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