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Type Event
Magnitude 5.4 mb
Local datetime 2016/08/20 14:14
Universal datetime 2016/08/20 05:14
Latitude 39.65 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 143.38 ° ± 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  254 1.037562e+06
Iwaki  361 357309
Kōriyama  361 340560
Akita  282 320069
Aomori  262 298394
Morioka  193 295172
Fukushima  330 294237
Hakodate  326 275730
Yamagata  306 254538
Hachinohe  184 239046
Hirosaki  268 174972
Obihiro  365 173890
Sakata  315 100446
Tsuruoka  324 99820
Muroran  362 96197

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.26
Azimuthal gap 138.7 °
Number of stations used 32
Number of phases used 32

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 05:15:35.27 -0.93 356.03 2.37 Automatic
IU MAJO P 05:16:14.42 0.4 234.33 5.12 Automatic
IU YSS P 05:16:44.10 -0.09 356.69 7.33 Automatic
IU INCN P 05:18:09.82 3.85 265.91 13.26 Automatic
IU PET P 05:18:56.35 1.6 32.9 16.96 Automatic
IU MA2 P 05:19:34.82 -0.24 10.74 20.47 Automatic
IU TATO P 05:20:05.92 -1.3 237.94 23.49 Automatic
IU YAK P 05:20:08.92 -2.13 344.08 23.88 Automatic
IU ULN P 05:20:41.87 0.12 299.64 27.21 Automatic
IU BILL P 05:21:15.17 -0.58 16.48 31.08 Automatic
IU CHTO P 05:22:59.99 -0.44 254.57 43.43 Automatic
II KDAK P 05:23:07.42 1.96 43.65 43.98 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 05:23:06.34 -0.57 300.38 44.16 Automatic
II KURK P 05:23:16.22 -0.87 306.49 45.43 Automatic
IU COLA P 05:23:23.72 3.18 33.45 45.88 Automatic
II BRVK P 05:23:51.47 -0.18 311.23 49.87 Automatic
II AAK P 05:23:56.17 -0.18 297.19 50.49 Automatic
II LVZ P 05:25:05.37 -0.59 335.73 60.12 Automatic
II WRAB P 05:25:01.67 -1.34 189.78 60.17 Automatic
IU KEV P 05:25:13.37 -0.62 339.3 61.3 Automatic
II OBN P 05:25:49.17 -0.36 323.4 66.67 Automatic
II KIV P 05:26:11.47 0.31 311.22 70.12 Automatic
IU GNI P 05:26:18.87 1.42 307.01 71.16 Automatic
II UOSS P 05:26:24.7 -0.19 288.11 72.33 Automatic
IU SFJD P 05:26:27.27 -0.25 5.68 72.82 Automatic
IU KONO P 05:26:32.52 0.05 337.65 73.66 Automatic
IU RSSD P 05:26:48.52 -0.87 42.95 76.59 Automatic
IU ANTO P 05:27:00.42 0.98 312.82 78.39 Automatic
II RAYN P 05:27:11.82 -1.04 293.1 80.91 Automatic
IU ANMO P 05:27:16.27 0.1 51.08 81.49 Automatic
II BFO P 05:27:26.67 0.26 331.78 83.43 Automatic
IU CCM P 05:27:45.42 -1.5 39.99 87.58 Automatic