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Type Event
Magnitude 5.8 mb
Local datetime 2015/02/17 08:06
Universal datetime 2015/02/16 23:06
Latitude 40.03 ° ± 4 km
Longitude 142.72 ° ± 4 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  243 1.037562e+06
Akita  228 320069
Aomori  192 298394
Morioka  140 295172
Fukushima  321 294237
Hakodate  257 275730
Yamagata  285 254538
Hachinohe  113 239046
Kushiro  355 183612
Hirosaki  200 174972
Tomakomai  307 174806
Obihiro  324 173890
Sakata  276 100446
Tsuruoka  290 99820
Muroran  296 96197

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.57
Azimuthal gap 50.74 °
Number of stations used 28
Number of phases used 28

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 23:07:02.72 0.67 9.35 2.01 Automatic
IU MAJO P 23:07:41.92 -0.92 226.87 4.97 Automatic
IU YSS P 23:08:11.50 1.93 0.24 6.93 Automatic
IU PET P 23:10:26.75 1.61 34.57 16.92 Automatic
IU MA2 P 23:11:02.32 -0.58 11.86 20.19 Automatic
IU TATO P 23:11:37.22 1.3 236.12 23.28 Automatic
IU YAK P 23:11:35.40 -1.53 344.53 23.37 Automatic
II TLY P 23:12:31.67 1.61 306.68 29.16 Automatic
IU TIXI P 23:12:57.2 -0.88 351.9 32.36 Automatic
IU MIDW P 23:13:21.9 2.09 97.33 34.75 Automatic
IU TARA P 23:15:02.77 1.1 136.91 47.41 Automatic
II KAPI P 23:15:18.22 -1.01 210.61 49.76 Automatic
II NIL P 23:15:57.72 0.49 286.87 54.54 Automatic
II OBN P 23:17:16.30 -0.16 323.05 66.06 Automatic
II MSVF P 23:17:15.22 -1.17 143.08 66.49 Automatic
II KIV P 23:17:38.37 0.26 310.81 69.48 Automatic
II FFC P 23:17:40.67 -2.85 33.67 70.36 Automatic
IU GNI P 23:17:46.12 1.69 306.59 70.52 Automatic
II UOSS P 23:17:50.62 -0.9 287.62 71.73 Automatic
IU SFJD P 23:17:55.52 -0.87 5.43 72.49 Automatic
II PFO P 23:18:17.87 -0.8 57.33 76.33 Automatic
IU NWAO P 23:18:15.72 -1.43 201.78 76.67 Automatic
IU TUC P 23:18:42.62 -0.63 55.18 80.79 Automatic
IU ANMO P 23:18:46.2 -1.81 50.75 81.64 Automatic
II BFO P 23:18:53.82 -0.46 331.39 82.85 Automatic
II TAU P 23:18:54.82 3.46 176.61 83.05 Automatic
IU CCM P 23:19:15.17 -2.76 39.59 87.6 Automatic
IU WVT P 23:19:35.42 2.55 38.59 90.78 Automatic