File:Iwate - Miyako - Taro -a- Tsunami heights -b- Part of the breakwater destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.jpg

English: Source: Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kenji Satake, Takeo Ishibe, Tomoya Harada, Akihito Nishiyama, Satoshi Kusumoto: "Tsunami Heights along the Pacific Coast of Northern Honshu Recorded from the 2011 Tohoku", Pure and Applied Geophysics, 171, 12, (2014), pp. 3183–3215, DOI:10.1007/s00024-014-0779-x, online published on 19 March 2014. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Here p. 3189, Figure 6.

Caption as given in the above cited source: "Figure 6 - a Tsunami heights at Taro-Tategamori (I69), Taro-Nohara (I70), Taro-Aozari (I71 and I72), and Taro-Tanaka (I73), Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture. The symbols and their meanings are the same as in Fig. 3. b Part of the breakwater destroyed by the 2011 tsunami. The building in the background is a hotel that the tsunami damaged up to the third floor (14.8 m; I70)"

Context as given in the above cited source: "At Taro in Miyako City, coastal levees with a height of 10 m and a total length of *2.4 km had been constructed; however, the 2011 tsunami destroyed a portion of these coastal levees, and transported blocks and other debris from the structure more than 100 m inland (Fig. 6). Almost all houses and fishing facilities were swept away or were completely leveled. The first three floors of a hotel were severely damaged, indicating an inundation height of 14.8 m (I70). Tsunami traces on the wall of a Japan Fisheries Cooperatives icehouse indicate the same inundation height (I72). Runup heights of 11.8 m (I73) and 19.0 m (I71) were measured at the western and eastern part of the residential area, respectively. Tsunami trace at a middle school indicates an inundation height of 12.6 m (I69)."