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Type Event
Magnitude 5 mb
Local datetime 2017/03/07 01:17
Universal datetime 2017/03/06 16:17
Latitude 38.63 ° ± 11 km
Longitude 145.98 ° ± 19 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  434 1.037562e+06
Iwaki  481 357309
Kōriyama  510 340560
Akita  523 320069
Aomori  513 298394
Morioka  436 295172
Fukushima  492 294237
Yamagata  495 254538
Mito  547 246538
Hachinohe  435 239046
Kushiro  501 183612
Hirosaki  520 174972
Obihiro  533 173890
Sakata  533 100446
Tsuruoka  535 99820

Past seismicity

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

Event details

Parameters

Evaluation status
RMS 2.51
Azimuthal gap 268.46 °
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
II ERM P 16:18:10.32 3.37 328.49 4.01 Automatic
IU MAJO P 16:18:42.32 0.97 253.71 6.5 Automatic
IU YSS P 16:19:09.50 -1.16 345.26 8.66 Automatic
IU YAK P 16:22:33.42 -0.1 342.16 25.44 Automatic
IU ULN P 16:23:05.97 -4.12 301.02 29.46 Automatic
IU MAKZ P 16:25:30.72 -2.31 301.85 46.41 Automatic
II KURK P 16:25:40.52 -2.24 307.75 47.65 Automatic
II BRVK P 16:26:15.92 -0.39 312.39 52.05 Automatic
II NIL P 16:26:56.52 1.6 289.31 57.37 Automatic
II KIV P 16:28:36.97 4.38 312.66 72.3 Automatic