869 Jōgan earthquake

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The 869 Jōgan earthquake (貞観地震, Jōgan jishin) and its associated tsunami struck the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu on 9 July 869 (the 26th day of the 5th month in the 11th year of Jōgan; or 13 July 869).

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Image: Modification and map: Anglo-Araneophilus~commonswiki, Original for content: Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: "Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan", Pure and Applied Geophysics, 170, (6-8), 2013, p. 993–1018, DOI=10.1007/s00024-012-0511-7, online published: 7. July 2012., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.