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Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2016/03/16 09:24
Universal datetime 2016/03/16 00:24
Latitude 39.73 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 142.95 ° ± 8 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  232 1.037562e+06
Iwaki  347 357309
Kōriyama  342 340560
Akita  246 320069
Aomori  226 298394
Morioka  156 295172
Fukushima  309 294237
Hakodate  296 275730
Yamagata  280 254538
Hachinohe  148 239046
Hirosaki  231 174972
Tomakomai  345 174806
Sakata  282 100446
Tsuruoka  293 99820
Muroran  335 96197

Past seismicity

  This map shows the most significant earthquake around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.13
Azimuthal gap 180.2 °
Number of stations used 20
Number of phases used 20

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 00:25:32.7 0.65 3.77 2.29 Automatic
IU MAJO P 00:26:07.62 0.12 231.05 4.91 Automatic
IU YSS P 00:26:40.65 1.4 358.95 7.23 Automatic
IU MA2 P 00:29:30.92 -0.3 11.37 20.45 Automatic
IU YAK P 00:30:04.27 -1.52 344.47 23.71 Automatic
IU ULN P 00:30:35.92 0.73 299.54 26.88 Automatic
IU BILL P 00:31:10.62 -1.63 16.76 31.09 Automatic
IU TIXI P 00:31:25.52 -0.74 351.84 32.69 Automatic
IU CHTO P 00:32:53.74 -0.7 254.12 43.14 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 00:33:00.79 0.11 300.21 43.83 Automatic
II KURK P 00:33:10.67 -0.31 306.35 45.12 Automatic
II BRVK P 00:33:45.82 0.09 311.09 49.57 Automatic
II AAK P 00:33:50.52 0.29 296.98 50.16 Automatic
II NIL P 00:34:25.27 0.63 287.19 54.8 Automatic
II KIV P 00:36:06.72 1.04 311 69.82 Automatic
II FFC P 00:36:07.92 -2.03 33.7 70.51 Automatic
II UOSS P 00:36:18.2 -0.6 287.85 71.99 Automatic
II RAYN P 00:37:06.52 -0.93 292.84 80.58 Automatic
IU ANMO P 00:37:16.62 3.02 50.85 81.7 Automatic
II BFO P 00:37:22.27 0.66 331.54 83.21 Automatic