The earthquake Catastrophe is often referred Adducing to in Japan as the and is also known as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake Catastrophe , the Great Sendai Earthquake Catastrophe , the Great Tōhoku Earthquake Catastrophe , and the 3.11 earthquake .

The earthquake Catastrophe triggered Causation powerful tsunami waves that may have reached Arriving heights of up to in Miyako in Tōhoku 's Iwate Prefecture , and which , in the Sendai area , traveled Motion at for up to inland .

Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes warning , and more than 19,000 were killed Killing , many at the more than a hundred evacuation sites that washed Removing away .