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Type Event
Magnitude 5.2 mb
Local datetime 2017/02/27 11:17
Universal datetime 2017/02/27 02:17
Latitude 39.93 ° ± 8 km
Longitude 142.17 ° ± 9 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  208 1.037562e+06
Iwaki  338 357309
Kōriyama  320 340560
Akita  180 320069
Aomori  159 298394
Morioka  92 295172
Fukushima  285 294237
Hakodate  239 275730
Yamagata  244 254538
Hachinohe  84 239046
Hirosaki  161 174972
Tomakomai  306 174806
Sakata  229 100446
Tsuruoka  244 99820
Muroran  286 96197

Past seismicity

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Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.93
Azimuthal gap 190.27 °
Number of stations used 16
Number of phases used 16

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Phases

Network Station Phase Time Residual (s) Azimuth (°) Distance (°) Mode
II ERM P 02:18:19.92 -1.12 19.38 2.21 Automatic
IU MAJO P 02:18:52.62 -1.28 223.85 4.6 Automatic
IU YSS P 02:19:27.45 0.13 3.29 7.04 Automatic
IU MA2 P 02:22:16.62 -4.51 12.56 20.37 Automatic
IU YAK P 02:22:52.82 -0.17 345.18 23.36 Automatic
IU ULN P 02:23:22.57 2.35 299.28 26.26 Automatic
IU BILL P 02:24:03.77 0.98 17.32 31.07 Automatic
IU TIXI P 02:24:14.62 0.17 352.22 32.4 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 02:25:46.99 0.67 299.84 43.21 Automatic
II KURK P 02:25:56.97 0.15 306.04 44.51 Automatic
IU COLA P 02:26:14.17 4.4 33.58 46.16 Automatic
II BRVK P 02:26:32.7 0.17 310.79 48.98 Automatic
II AAK P 02:26:37.7 0.96 296.55 49.53 Automatic
II NIL P 02:27:11.22 0.54 286.67 54.16 Automatic
II KIV P 02:28:52.22 -0.5 310.59 69.23 Automatic
II RAYN P 02:29:51.77 -2.93 292.35 79.95 Automatic