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16 March 2022

ALERT: Mw 7.4 NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 53 km E Nakumura 16/03/2022 14:36 (UTC)

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Rapid Determination of Source Parameters
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WARNING : These parameters are preliminary and subject to revision.
Location and magnitude estimations may be revised if necessary in
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EARTHQUAKE on 16/03/2022 at 14:36 (UTC)
NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 53 km E Nakumura

MAGNITUDE: Mw 7.4

Data provided by: AT AUST BEO CSLC GFZ IGC JMA KAN MAD PT PT
WC SC3

Latitude = 37.80 N
Longitude = 141.54 E
Origin Time = 14:36:32.9 (UTC)
Depth = 47 Km
RMS = 1.32 sec
Gap = 32 degrees
95% confidence ellipse: - Semi major = 4.6 Km
- Semi minor = 3.6 Km
- Azimuth of major axis = 108 degrees

Number of data used = 408

Preliminary location computed on Wed Mar 16 14:53:55 2022 (UTC)
Done by A Trilla

Comments :

Message number: 3217

All magnitudes estimations :
Mi7.3 (AT) Mw7.3 (AUST) M 7.5 (BEO) M 7.4 (GFZ) M
7.8 (IGC) Mw7.3 (JMA) Mw7.1 (KAN) Mw7.8 (MAD) M
i7.3 (PT) Mw7.3 (PTWC) M 7.4 (SC3)

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