March 11, 2019 Tsunami: Bonin Islands, Japan
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 5.2 earthquake began at Bonin Islands, Japan on March 11, 2019 at 09:33:47 UTC.
Where the waves reached
The source of the tsunami. No runup with a place is recorded for it.
- Under 1 m
- 1 to 3 m
- 3 to 10 m
- 10 to 30 m
- 30 m and more
- Height not recorded
The tsunami
- Date
- March 11, 2019, 09:33:47 UTC
- Source
- Bonin Islands, Japan
- Cause
- Earthquake
- Earthquake
- Magnitude 5.2, 15 km deep
- Runups recorded
- 0
- Waters
- Ocean
- How certain
- Probable tsunami
- Source location
- 25.600° N, 141.462° E
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this tsunami.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Despite noisy data, we detect tiny but clear tsunami signals by utilizing the similarity of tsunami waveforms at nearby gauges. The analysis of the tsunami signals shows that submarine caldera uplift events occurred during both earthquakes, similar to past events […] occurred due to trapdoor uplifts in Kita‐Ioto Caldera (reference #14174)
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Sources
Tsunami events and runups from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI tsunami event 6056.