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Type Event
Magnitude 5.8 mb
Local datetime 2016/04/20 21:19
Universal datetime 2016/04/20 12:19
Latitude 37.88 ° ± 4 km
Longitude 141.51 ° ± 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  62 1.037562e+06
Niigata  217 505272
Utsunomiya  207 449865
Iwaki  107 357309
Kōriyama  112 340560
Kawagoe  282 337931
Akita  238 320069
Morioka  207 295172
Fukushima  93 294237
Maebashi  272 282711
Yamagata  113 254538
Mito  191 246538
Nagaoka  238 195318
Sakata  185 100446
Tsuruoka  173 99820

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.24
Azimuthal gap 53.8 °
Number of stations used 41
Number of phases used 41

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU MAJO P 12:20:30.92 2.15 244.12 2.95 Automatic
II ERM P 12:20:48.62 1.09 16.47 4.32 Automatic
IU YSS P 12:21:54.65 1.26 5.4 9.13 Automatic
IU PET P 12:24:09.50 3.25 32.56 19.23 Automatic
IU TATO P 12:24:32.27 3.36 238.55 21.32 Automatic
IU MA2 P 12:24:40.52 -0.81 12.3 22.49 Automatic
IU YAK P 12:25:07.2 -0.83 346.97 25.23 Automatic
IU ULN P 12:25:23.17 -0.1 302.91 26.88 Automatic
IU ADK P 12:26:11.27 0.79 50.56 32.2 Automatic
IU BILL P 12:26:17.37 -1.42 16.73 33.19 Automatic
IU TIXI P 12:26:27.37 -1.68 352.98 34.37 Automatic
IU MIDW P 12:26:39.29 0.23 93.4 35.49 Automatic
IU CHTO P 12:27:29.4 -0.71 254.84 41.56 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 12:27:48.9 -0.58 301.56 43.81 Automatic
II KURK P 12:27:59.47 -1.33 307.58 45.33 Automatic
II KDAK P 12:28:09.22 1.05 42.34 46.27 Automatic
IU TARA P 12:28:09.49 0.92 134.11 46.53 Automatic
II KAPI P 12:28:14.52 -0.42 210.1 47.42 Automatic
IU COLA P 12:28:23.7 0.22 32.53 48.16 Automatic
II BRVK P 12:28:36.12 -0.65 311.98 49.95 Automatic
II AAK P 12:28:36.52 -0.73 297.88 50.01 Automatic
II WRAB P 12:29:31.52 -2.36 187.91 58.2 Automatic
IU KBS P 12:29:47.97 1.14 350.11 59.61 Automatic
II LVZ P 12:29:58.17 0.8 335.72 61.13 Automatic
IU KEV P 12:30:06.57 0.43 339.2 62.43 Automatic
II PALK P 12:30:06.27 -0.34 257.17 62.64 Automatic
II OBN P 12:30:37.52 0.02 323.17 67.21 Automatic
IU COR P 12:30:42.12 1.83 50.07 67.65 Automatic
II KIV P 12:30:56.7 0.02 310.87 70.18 Automatic
IU GNI P 12:31:02.7 0.76 306.62 71.05 Automatic
II UOSS P 12:31:02.67 -1.06 287.64 71.49 Automatic
II FFC P 12:31:09.57 -1.59 32.77 72.68 Automatic
IU SFJD P 12:31:22.77 -0.37 4.88 74.72 Automatic
IU KONO P 12:31:23.27 0.05 337.06 74.73 Automatic
II PFO P 12:31:42.42 -0.95 56.28 78.3 Automatic
IU RSSD P 12:31:45.37 -1.31 41.76 78.88 Automatic
II ESK P 12:32:04.22 0.46 340.62 82.05 Automatic
IU TUC P 12:32:06.72 -0.8 54.25 82.8 Automatic
IU ANMO P 12:32:11.82 -0.59 49.85 83.74 Automatic
IU CCM P 12:32:40.87 -1.39 38.81 89.87 Automatic
IU WVT P 12:32:57.27 0.2 37.85 93.06 Automatic