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Type Event
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Local datetime 2015/02/18 01:33
Universal datetime 2015/02/17 16:33
Latitude 39.64 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 143.46 ° ± 5 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  259 1.037562e+06
Iwaki  364 357309
Kōriyama  365 340560
Akita  290 320069
Aomori  269 298394
Morioka  200 295172
Fukushima  335 294237
Hakodate  332 275730
Yamagata  312 254538
Hachinohe  191 239046
Hirosaki  275 174972
Obihiro  367 173890
Sakata  322 100446
Tsuruoka  331 99820
Muroran  367 96197

Past seismicity

  This map shows the most significant earthquake around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 0.94
Azimuthal gap 132.22 °
Number of stations used 30
Number of phases used 30

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 16:34:01.72 -0.64 354.53 2.39 Automatic
IU MAJO P 16:34:41.27 0.65 234.9 5.16 Automatic
IU YSS P 16:35:10.25 -0.09 356.24 7.34 Automatic
IU PET P 16:37:21.100 1.65 32.75 16.93 Automatic
IU MA2 P 16:38:00.32 -0.66 10.61 20.46 Automatic
IU TATO P 16:38:33.12 -0.55 238.09 23.54 Automatic
IU YAK P 16:38:34.95 -2.31 344 23.91 Automatic
IU ULN P 16:39:08.42 0.17 299.65 27.27 Automatic
II TLY P 16:39:32.47 1.15 307.11 29.86 Automatic
IU TIXI P 16:39:55.87 -1.27 351.58 32.83 Automatic
IU CHTO P 16:41:26.64 -0.23 254.65 43.49 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 16:41:32.94 -0.42 300.41 44.22 Automatic
II KURK P 16:41:42.87 -0.64 306.52 45.49 Automatic
IU COLA P 16:41:47.37 1.1 33.45 45.86 Automatic
II BRVK P 16:42:17.72 -0.3 311.25 49.93 Automatic
II AAK P 16:42:22.77 0 297.22 50.55 Automatic
II NIL P 16:42:57.87 0.74 287.49 55.2 Automatic
II WRAB P 16:43:27.42 -1.55 189.87 60.17 Automatic
II OBN P 16:44:15.100 0.22 323.43 66.72 Automatic
II KIV P 16:44:38.32 0.87 311.26 70.18 Automatic
II FFC P 16:44:37.87 -0.8 33.89 70.37 Automatic
IU GNI P 16:44:46.7 2.32 307.06 71.21 Automatic
II UOSS P 16:44:50.7 -0.54 288.16 72.4 Automatic
IU SFJD P 16:44:53.92 0.43 5.71 72.83 Automatic
II PFO P 16:45:12.17 -0.05 57.65 76.06 Automatic
IU RSSD P 16:45:14.97 -0.16 42.99 76.55 Automatic
IU TUC P 16:45:37.22 0.2 55.55 80.55 Automatic
IU ANMO P 16:45:42.17 0.29 51.13 81.45 Automatic
II BFO P 16:45:53.57 1.01 331.83 83.47 Automatic
IU CCM P 16:46:12.12 -0.59 40.04 87.54 Automatic