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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2016/09/17 22:39
Universal datetime 2016/09/17 13:39
Latitude 38.80 ° ± 9 km
Longitude 142.13 ° ± 10 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  112 1.037562e+06
Niigata  287 505272
Utsunomiya  319 449865
Iwaki  222 357309
Kōriyama  218 340560
Akita  203 320069
Aomori  256 298394
Morioka  134 295172
Fukushima  187 294237
Yamagata  168 254538
Mito  306 246538
Hachinohe  197 239046
Hirosaki  243 174972
Sakata  198 100446
Tsuruoka  200 99820

Past seismicity

  This map shows the most significant earthquake around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.56
Azimuthal gap 185.01 °
Number of stations used 10
Number of phases used 10

Webservices

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
IU MAJO P 13:40:44.22 0.88 235.29 3.84 Automatic
IU YSS P 13:41:44.70 1.97 3.02 8.17 Automatic
IU MA2 P 13:44:33.17 0.15 11.98 21.49 Automatic
IU YAK P 13:45:01.47 -1.7 345.86 24.45 Automatic
IU ULN P 13:45:28.2 3.02 301.25 26.81 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 13:47:50.24 -0.36 300.86 43.76 Automatic
II KURK P 13:47:59.67 -2.19 306.95 45.16 Automatic
II BRVK P 13:48:35.67 -1.62 311.52 49.71 Automatic
II KIV P 13:50:56.72 -0.29 310.89 69.95 Automatic
IU ANMO P 13:52:09.97 0.15 50.28 82.78 Automatic