[Keith in Iowa]

Region: NEAR EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Geographic coordinates: 38.405N, 142.120E
Magnitude: 6.5 Mw
Depth: 5 km
Universal Time (UTC): 27 Mar 2011 22:23:56
Time near the Epicenter: 28 Mar 2011 07:23:56

Location with respect to nearby cities:
109 km (68 miles) E (81 degrees) of Sendai, Honshu, Japan
163 km (101 miles) ENE (62 degrees) of Fukushima, Honshu, Japan
169 km (105 miles) SSE (149 degrees) of Morioka, Honshu, Japan
370 km (230 miles) NE (34 degrees) of TOKYO, Japan

ADDITIONAL EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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event ID : US c0002cqa

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[pollywog]

Not sure why this 6.5 is more significant than the one two days ago that was 6.8.There were at least 4 last week 6.0 or larger. MANY 5.0’s.

There have been many 6. aftershocks since the historic 9.0.

[proudofthesouth]

This one was only 5km deep. I don’t know how shallow the other after shocks have been or if tsunami warnings have been issued for them either.