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17 February 2015

INFO: Mw 6.9 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 67 km E Omoto 16/02/2015 23:06 (UTC)

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EMSC HAS RECORDED THE FOLLOWING SEISMIC EVENT
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EARTHQUAKE on 16/02/2015 at 23:06 (UTC)
NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 67 km E Omoto

MAGNITUDE: Mw 6.9

Data provided by: AT BGSG GFZ GSRC JMA KAN PT PTWC SC3

Latitude = 40.03 N
Longitude = 142.72 E
Origin Time = 23:06:28.9 (UTC)
Depth = 10 Km
RMS = 1.84 sec
Gap = 40 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 13.0 Km
- Semi minor = 7.8 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 109 degrees

Number of data used = 111

Preliminary location computed on Mon Feb 16 23:25:17 2015 (UTC)
Done by Julien VERGOZ

Comments :

Message number: 2150

All magnitudes estimations :
Mi6.9 (AT) Mw7.1 (BGSG) M 6.7 (GFZ) Mb6.1 (GSRC) M
w6.9 (JMA) Mw6.8 (KAN) Mi6.9 (PT) Mw6.9 (PTWC) M
6.7 (SC3)

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