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Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2016/08/20 14:52
Universal datetime 2016/08/20 05:52
Latitude 40.20 ° ± 7 km
Longitude 141.40 ° ± 7 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
Sapporo  320 1.883027e+06
Sendai  214 1.037562e+06
Kōriyama  322 340560
Akita  124 320069
Aomori  91 298394
Morioka  58 295172
Fukushima  284 294237
Hakodate  186 275730
Yamagata  233 254538
Hachinohe  37 239046
Hirosaki  89 174972
Tomakomai  273 174806
Sakata  194 100446
Tsuruoka  214 99820
Muroran  242 96197

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.91
Azimuthal gap 161.86 °
Number of stations used 9
Number of phases used 9

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 05:53:33.72 0.81 35.57 2.25 Automatic
IU MAJO P 05:54:01.2 -1.78 215.42 4.43 Automatic
IU YSS P 05:54:32.5 -3.75 7.86 6.83 Automatic
IU ULN P 05:58:28.87 3.2 298.9 25.61 Automatic
IU ADK P 05:59:14.17 1.75 53.56 30.84 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 06:00:53.32 0.92 299.41 42.56 Automatic
II KURK P 06:01:02.92 -0.12 305.68 43.88 Automatic
II BRVK P 06:01:38.32 -0.1 310.46 48.36 Automatic
II KIV P 06:03:59.22 -0.93 310.16 68.61 Automatic