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BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 9:20 p.m. ET March 19, 2005
MSNBC News Services

TOKYO - A strong 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu on Sunday. Tsunami warnings have been issued, public broadcaster NHK said.
 
Magnitude 6.4 - KYUSHU, JAPAN
2005 March 20 01:53:42 UTC


Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver




[font=arial, helvetica]A strong earthquake occurred at 01:53:42 (UTC) on Sunday, March 20, 2005. The magnitude 6.4 event has been located in KYUSHU, JAPAN. (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.) [/font]


[font=arial,helvetica]Magnitude[/font][font=arial,helvetica]6.4[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Date-Time[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 01:53:42 (UTC)
= Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 10:53:42 AM
= local time at epicenter [/font]
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones [font=arial,helvetica]Location[/font][font=arial,helvetica]33.851°N, 129.975°E[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Depth[/font][font=arial,helvetica]10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Region[/font][font=arial,helvetica]KYUSHU, JAPAN[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Distances[/font][font=arial,helvetica]
40 km (25 miles) WNW of Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
115 km (70 miles) N of Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan
130 km (80 miles) NNW of Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan
915 km (570 miles) W of TOKYO, Japan
[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Location Uncertainty[/font][font=arial,helvetica]horizontal +/- 9.2 km (5.7 miles); depth fixed by location program[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Parameters[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Nst=125, Nph=125, Dmin=441.1 km, Rmss=1.41 sec, Gp= 76°,
M-type=moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7 [/font][font=arial,helvetica]Source[/font][font=arial,helvetica]USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
[/font][font=arial,helvetica]Event ID[/font][font=arial,helvetica]usvwac[/font]
 
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