Today March 11th is the 2nd anniversary of the magnitude 9 quake and tsunami.

Some numbers gleaned from scanning the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami)

9.03 Mw magnitude
2.99 g peak acceleration (calculated)
2.7 g largest measured acceleration
IX max intensity
6 minute duration
40.5 meters (133 ft) maximum estimated tsunami run up
1.2 meters (4 ft) maximum land subsidence
50 meters (164 ft) ESE "area between the epicenter and the Japan Trench moved"
7 meters (23 ft) up ''

2.4 meters (8 ft) distance island of Honshu moved east
10-25 cm (4-10 inches) amount Earth's axis shifted
1.8 microseconds, day is shorter by

3.9x10e22 joules seismic moment
9,320,000 megatons TNT
600 million Little Boy atomic bombs

3 nuclear reactors suffer major damage
level 7 of 7 on the INES nuclear event scale

US$235 billion estimated economic loss

15,881 dead
6,142 injured
2,668 missing

Brian