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Type Event
Magnitude 5.1 mb
Local datetime 2017/02/28 02:52
Universal datetime 2017/02/27 17:52
Latitude 38.31 ° ± 14 km
Longitude 145.42 ° ± 21 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  385 1.037562e+06
Utsunomiya  529 449865
Iwaki  423 357309
Kōriyama  455 340560
Akita  487 320069
Aomori  491 298394
Morioka  403 295172
Fukushima  439 294237
Yamagata  446 254538
Mito  488 246538
Hachinohe  413 239046
Kushiro  525 183612
Hirosaki  494 174972
Sakata  490 100446
Tsuruoka  489 99820

Past seismicity

  This map shows only the 0 most significant earthquakes around this event.

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 1.96
Azimuthal gap 272.17 °
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 17:53:06.52 2.19 335.69 4.08 Automatic
IU MAJO P 17:53:31.67 0.87 255.06 5.99 Automatic
IU YAK P 17:57:30.17 -1.27 342.88 25.61 Automatic
IU ULN P 17:58:01.87 -2.74 301.56 29.25 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 18:00:26.34 -1.47 301.98 46.2 Automatic
II KURK P 18:00:35.97 -2 307.88 47.5 Automatic
II BRVK P 18:01:11.47 -0.4 312.46 51.94 Automatic
II NIL P 18:01:50.52 1.39 289.24 57.06 Automatic
II KIV P 18:03:31.77 3.43 312.48 72.19 Automatic