Tokyo, July 19 (ANI): The massive tsunami that struck north-east Japan on March 11 rose to a maximum height of 132.5 feet (over 40 meters), the researchers have said.
It rose taller than Rio's Christ the Redeemer.
The study by 150 experts from 48 research organizations across the country determined that the wave that roared out of the Pacific was the largest to ever hit Japan.
The experts collected data from 5,400 locations the length of the east coast of Japan after the magnitude 9.0 undersea earthquake, the Telegraph reports.
The survey used marks left on buildings and trees that rise up the sides of the valley where the town is located to reach a conclusion on the scale of the disaster.
The research showed that the tsunami was taller than the December 2004 tsunami triggered by the undersea earthquake off Indonesia, the paper said.
That tsunami reached a height of 108 feet and claimed an estimated 230,210 lives in Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka.
In comparison, around 25,000 died in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The largest tsunami recorded to date was the Lituya Bay megatsunami, which occurred on July 9, 1958, when a landslide caused over one trillion cubic feet of rock and ice to fall into the narrow Alaskan inlet of Lituya Bay.
The resulting tsunami was measured at 1,720 feet, 470 feet higher than the roof of the Empire State Building. (ANI)
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