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Type Event
Magnitude 5.3 mb
Local datetime 2016/08/22 08:13
Universal datetime 2016/08/21 23:13
Latitude 39.76 ° ± 5 km
Longitude 143.57 ° ± 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  275 1.037562e+06
Akita  299 320069
Aomori  271 298394
Morioka  210 295172
Fukushima  351 294237
Hakodate  329 275730
Yamagata  327 254538
Hachinohe  192 239046
Kushiro  363 183612
Hirosaki  279 174972
Tomakomai  363 174806
Obihiro  353 173890
Sakata  334 100446
Tsuruoka  344 99820
Muroran  361 96197

Past seismicity

  This map shows the most significant earthquake around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.32
Azimuthal gap 134.35 °
Number of stations used 26
Number of phases used 26

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU MAJO P 23:14:30.27 0.31 234.39 5.31 Automatic
IU YSS P 23:14:56.15 0.07 355.58 7.22 Automatic
IU INCN P 23:16:26.2 4.55 265.6 13.42 Automatic
IU PET P 23:17:07.100 2.18 32.81 16.78 Automatic
IU MA2 P 23:17:46.27 -0.58 10.52 20.33 Automatic
IU TATO P 23:18:21.7 -1.34 238.02 23.68 Automatic
IU YAK P 23:18:21.27 -2.44 343.8 23.81 Automatic
IU ULN P 23:18:55.12 -0.62 299.43 27.28 Automatic
IU BILL P 23:19:27.42 -0.31 16.42 30.92 Automatic
IU CHTO P 23:21:14.72 -0.46 254.62 43.61 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 23:21:20.19 -0.63 300.33 44.23 Automatic
II KURK P 23:21:29.37 -1.47 306.44 45.48 Automatic
II AAK P 23:22:09.77 -0.52 297.17 50.57 Automatic
II WRAB P 23:23:15.82 -1.47 189.98 60.31 Automatic
II OBN P 23:24:02.17 -0.67 323.44 66.67 Automatic
II KIV P 23:24:25.27 0.55 311.28 70.16 Automatic
IU GNI P 23:24:32.7 0.99 307.07 71.21 Automatic
II UOSS P 23:24:38.37 0.14 288.19 72.44 Automatic
IU RSSD P 23:25:02.2 0.36 43.07 76.4 Automatic
IU ANTO P 23:25:12.87 -0.07 312.9 78.42 Automatic
IU TUC P 23:25:24.42 0.78 55.63 80.4 Automatic
II RAYN P 23:25:25.57 -1.11 293.2 81.01 Automatic
IU ANMO P 23:25:29.27 0.78 51.2 81.3 Automatic
II BFO P 23:25:40.27 0.69 331.89 83.4 Automatic
IU CCM P 23:25:58.82 -0.54 40.11 87.39 Automatic
IU WVT P 23:26:15.22 0.83 39.15 90.58 Automatic