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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2014/12/28 20:49
Universal datetime 2014/12/28 11:49
Latitude 38.37 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 144.50 ° ± 6 km
Depth 10 km (from location) ± 0.0 km

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Near cities

This table shows only the most populated cities around the epicenter.
Name Distance (km) Population
Sendai  304 1.037562e+06
Niigata  481 505272
Utsunomiya  456 449865
Iwaki  350 357309
Kōriyama  377 340560
Akita  410 320069
Aomori  425 298394
Morioka  328 295172
Fukushima  360 294237
Yamagata  366 254538
Mito  419 246538
Hachinohe  348 239046
Hirosaki  424 174972
Sakata  409 100446
Tsuruoka  409 99820

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.66
Azimuthal gap 133.19 °
Number of stations used 18
Number of phases used 18

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 11:50:41.77 -0.63 344.74 3.79 Automatic
IU MAJO P 11:51:04.7 0.47 251.9 5.32 Automatic
IU YSS P 11:51:49.10 -0.49 352.12 8.69 Automatic
IU MA2 P 11:54:34.57 0.74 8.65 21.58 Automatic
IU CHTO P 11:57:51.97 0.47 256.8 43.96 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 11:58:04.37 -0.51 301.74 45.56 Automatic
IU COLA P 11:58:12.82 0.86 32.79 46.48 Automatic
II KURK P 11:58:14.62 -0.78 307.68 46.9 Automatic
II BRVK P 11:58:49.47 -0.28 312.24 51.37 Automatic
II AAK P 11:58:53.57 0.18 298.48 51.85 Automatic
II NIL P 11:59:26.77 0.48 288.79 56.36 Automatic
II WRAB P 11:59:41.2 -1.17 191.12 59.07 Automatic
II FFC P 12:01:02.77 -0.37 34.06 70.97 Automatic
II KIV P 12:01:08.32 1.27 312.05 71.62 Automatic
II PFO P 12:01:33.67 0.66 57.93 76.06 Automatic
II BFO P 12:02:20.72 -0.24 332.47 84.97 Automatic
IU CCM P 12:02:34.92 -0.72 40.63 87.99 Automatic
IU WVT P 12:02:50.77 0.06 39.75 91.21 Automatic